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PRINTED AT THE 

HILLSBORO GAZETTE JOB ROOM. 
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THE HISTORY 



CoHiity of Highland, 



In the State of Ohio, 



From its First Creation and Oroanization, 
to July 4tli, 187(5; 



TfUiETHEK WITH THE PKOCEEUINGS OK THE ASSEMBLED I'EOPLE, WHO 

MET ON THAT DAY AT HILLSBOUO, THE 

COUNTY SEAT, TO 

niEBKATE THE CENTENNIAL BIRTHDAY OF THE NATION. 

AND ALSO, 

A roiiliiiirdtioii of (lie Histoi'Y to Deceiiilier MMll 



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By JAMES H. THOMPSON, of Hillsboro, Q 



I'KINTE?) AT THE 

HILLSBOno (lAZETTE JOB ROO^I. 
1878. 




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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1877, by 

JAMES H. THOMPSON, 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



THE HlSl'ORY OF THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 

CHAPTER I. 

CREATION AND ORGANIZATION. 

rpHE County of Highland, in the State of Ohio, was 
created and organized in pursuance of the act of the 
General Assembly of the State, passed February 18th, 1805. 
And its permanent boundaries were fixed and settled by 
said act, and also by subsequent parts of the acts of the 
said General Assembly, creating the counties of Fayette 
and Clinton, passed February 19th, 1810; and also, by 
an act of said General xlssembly, passed February, 1813. 

AN ACT 

Erecting a part of the counties of Ross, Adams ami Clermont, into a 
separate county, hi/ the name of Highland. 

Section 1. Be it enncted b;/ the Geuer<d Assembh/ of the State of 
Ohio: That all that part of the counties of Ross, Adams and Clermont, 
within the followiuii' boundaries, be and the same is hereby laid ofi 
and erected into a sepai'ate county, which shall be known by the 
name of Highland: beginning at the twenty nule tree, in the line 
between Adams and Clermont counties, which is run north from 
the mouth of Eagle creek, on the Ohio river, and running thence 
east twelve miles; thence north-eastwardly until it intersects the 
line which was run between tlie counties of Ross, 8cioto and Adams, 
at the eighteen mile tree from the Scioto river; thence northwardly 
to the mouth of the Rocky fork of Paint creek; thence up main Paint 
creek, by the bed thereof, including John Watt's survey of one thou- 
sand acres, on which the town of (Greenfield is situate, to the south 
line of Franklin county ; thence with said line west, to the east line 
of Green county; thence with said line south, to the south-east corner 
of said county; thence with the south line thereof west, to the north- 



NoTE. — Highland was the 21st county, in order of time, organized 
in the State of Ohio, 



4 THE HISTORY OF 

east corner of Clermont county, and from the beginning west, to the 
north fork of White Oak creek; thence north to the soutli line of 
Warren county; thence with said line east to the corner between 
Clermont and 'Warren counties. 

Sec. 2. That from and after the first day of May next, said 
county shall be vested with all the powers, privileges and immunities 
of a separate and distinct county : Prorkied, that it shall be lawful for 
the coroners, sheriffs, constables and collectors for the counties of 
Ross, Adams and Clermont, to do and perform all the duties which 
they are or may be required to do in their respective counties, within 
the'bounds of said comity of Highland, before the said division shall 
take place; and all suits and actions, which are or may be pending 
therein at the time of said division, shall be tried and determined in 
the same manner as though a division had not taken place. 

Sec. 3. That all that part of the county of Highland, which shall 
lie south of an east line drawn from the forty-four mile tree, in the 
line which divides the counties Adams, Clermont, Ross and Warren, 
to Paint creek, shall be a district, within which and within four miles 
of the common center thereof, the conunissioners who may be ap- 
pointed, agreeaV)ly to an act, entitled "an act establishing seats of jus- 
tice," shall tix the permanent seat of justice for the said county of 
Highland. 

Sec. 4. That all the inhabitants within the said county of High- 
land, who do now, or may hereafter reside north of the east and west 
line mentioned in the third section of this act, shall be exempted 
from paying any county rates or levies, for the purpose of erecting 
public buildings therein. 

Sec. 5. That the courts to be held in the said county of Highland, 
shall be holden in the town of New Market, until a permanent seat of 
justice shall be established in said county. [Passed Feb. 18, 1805.] 

AN ACT establitiliiiKj the count ij of Fayette. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Ohio: That all those parts of Ross and Highland counties, included 
in the following boundaries, l)e and the same are lierebv Liid oft' and 
erected into a separate and distinct county, which shall be called and 
known l)y the name of Fayette, to-wit: beginning at the south-west 
corner of the county of Pickaway; thence north with the line of said 
county, to the corner of Madison; thence west with the line of said 
Madison county, to the line of (ireene county ; thence south with 
the line of Greene county, to the south-east corner thereof; thence 
east live miles; thence south to the line of Highland county; thence 
east with said line, to Paint creek ; thence a straight line ti) place of 
beginning. [Passed February 1!), 1810.] 



AN A'CT establishing the county of (Jlinton. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the .State of 
Ohio: That all those parts of the counties of Warren and Highland, 
within the following })oundaries, be and the same are hereby erected 
into a separate county, to l)e known by the name of Clinton: begin- 
ning at the south-east corner of Greene county, running east live 
miles; thence south to Highland county line; thence west with said 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 

line, witliin four miles of the eastern line of Warren county; thence 
southwardly so far as to intersect a line one mile east from the south- 
east corner of Warren county; thence west from the beginning west, 
so far that a line soutii will leave Warren county a constitutional 
boundary. [A/s.sr,? Fdiriuinj 10, 1810.] 

AN ACT to attach part of Highland county to the county of Clinton. 

Section 1. Br it mactcd hy the General /Uarmhly of the State of 
Ohio: That all that part of Highland county, within the following 
boundaries, be and the same is hereby attached to, and sliall remain 
in the county of Clinton: beginning at the south-east corner of Clinton 
county, adjoining Fayette county; thence running a line on a south- 
westerly direction to strike the line of Clinton counjf^y, at such point 
as to include four hundred square miles in the said county of Clinton. 

Sec. 2. That the county surveyor of the county of Ross, shall, 
within thirty days after l)eing duly notified by the commissioners of 
Clinton county, i)roceed to survey said county of Clinton, and annex 
thereto so much of the county of Highland as shall make said county 
of Clinton contain four hundred square miles, agreeably to the provi- 
sions of the first section of this act, and said surveyor shall take to 
his assistance, chain-men and ax-men, who are not inhabitants 
either of the counties of Clinton, Warren or Highland, and who have 
no interest therein, who shall be duly sworn as the law directs; and 
said surveyor shall make out two accurate surveys, or plats thereof, 
one of which he shall return to the clerk of the court of common 
pleas for said county of Clinton, who shall record the same in the 
records of the court of said county, and the other he shall deposit in 
the ottice of the secretary of state, who shall preserve the same with 
this act, which survey, when so made and recorded, shall be the per- 
petual boundaries of said ('ounty of Clinton; and said surveyor shall 
receive two dollars per day, and said chain-men and ax-men shall each 
receive one dollar per day, for all the time they are respectively em- 
ployed in such service, to be paid out of the treasury of the county 
of Clinton. [Fai^xed February 4, 1S13.] 

Under these acts of the General Assembly, and the exe- 
cution of them by the proper legal authorities, the bounda- 
ries of Highland county were ascertained and fixed, A. D. 
1813, and have so remained ever since, except that slight 
variations of the compass in the running of county lines, 
have, in a very few instances, changed the residences of a 
small number of inhabitants from one county to another, 
possibly not in a half-dozen instances. 

Within the indisputable boundary lines, it is estimated, 
and has been as accurately ascertained as can be, without a 
precise survey of each farm, that there are included five 
hundred and forty-one square miles of territory, making 



6 THE HISTOHY OP 

three hundred and forty-six thousand, three hundred and 
seven acres of land, comprehended in six hundred and thir- 
ty-two original surveys of the Virginia Military District. 
This terrritory is now divided into seventeen townships, of 
Unequal quantities of land, and of varied boundaries, spring- 
ing out of the original irregularities of the surveys in the 
Virginia Military District. The names of all the townships, 
and the dates of their creation and organization, are given so 
far as they can be ascertained. 

At a meeting of the county commissioners, April 14th, 
I825j the following orders were made : 

"Boundary lines of the several townships of Highland 
"county, as recorded on the books in which the acts and 
"proceedings of the commissioners of said county have 
"been recorded from its first organization, collected into 
"one view, by order of the commissioners, A])ri] 14th, 
" 1825. 

"At the first organization of Highland countv, it ap})ears 
"from the records, of the commissioners, that the whole 
"county was divided into four townships, viz: Liberty, 
"New Market, Fairfield and Brush Creek." 

And then in the same order, the boundary lines of the four 
preceding townships, and of Paint, Union, Madison and 
Concord, are all recorded as existing at that time ; but there 
are no dates given as to the time of the creation and organi- 
zation of these eight t()wnshi])s, and there are no records or 
journals in the auditor's office, clerk's office, or recorder's of- 
fice, of Adams, Ross, Clermont, or Highland counties, (which 
have been diligently searched,) from which such dates can be 
obtained; nor by what authority the first four original town- 
ships were created and organized. The county commis- 
sioners were, for the first time, exclusively authorized to 
organize and create new townships, by the act of the Gen- 
eral Assembly, of February 19th, 1810; and previous to 
that time, the justices of the court of quarter session, prior 
to the state constitution of 1802; and the commissioners 



THE COUNTY OF llIGltLANt). 7 

of each county, and the associate judges of the court of 
common pleas of each county, after the adoption of that 
constitution, had concurrently exercised the power, by law, 
of organizing new townships, until 1810. 

The first record book of the proceedings of the county 
commissioners that can be found in the auditor's office, is 
that of A. D., 1811; and it has been reported to the writer, 
and such report is sustained by considerations presently 
mentioned, that after making the above orders (in 1825) 
as to the eight townships mentioned, the commissioners, be- 
fore the present court house was erected, burned up as Use- 
less papers, the loose and irregular proceedings of their 
board, prior to 1811, which contained the dates of the or- 
ganization of the townships mentioned above. This tradi- 
tion is confirmed by the fact that the journals from 1811 
(leather bound,) exist, and that in 1825 several other town- 
ships besides those mentioned, had been created prior thereto ; 
and no description of the boundaries of the first eiglit 
townships are given at all, and cannot be found in these 
leather bound journals. 

How the fact may be, is not a matter of much public im- 
portance, as the eight townships and their boundaries as 
fixed and defined by the journal of 1825, and the several 
changes thereof, by the creation of other subsequent town- 
ships, are all matters of record, and no dispute can arise 
as to the boundaries, if the records existing are preserved. 

The following are the dates of the organization of those 
townships which are found on the journals, and the territo- 
ry out of which thev were formed : 



THE HISTORY OP 



Names of 


Time of 


townships. 


organization. 


Jackson... 


Sept. 24, 1816 


Salem 


Aug. 19, 1819 


Whiteoak 


1821 


Dodson ... 


June 7, 1830 


Clay 


Dec. 5, 1831 


Marshall .. 


Jan. 15, 1844 


Hamer 


June 5, 1849 


"Wash'fit'n 


June 6, 1850 


Penn 


March 2, 1852 



From ivhat 
toiunships created. 

Brush Creek and Concord. 

New Market and Union. 

New Market and Salem. 

Union, Salem and New Market. 

Whiteoak and Salem. 

Liberty, Jackson, Brush Cr. and Paint. 

Salem, New Market, Union and Dodson. 

Liberty, Concord, Jackson and Marshall. 

Liberty, Fairtield and L^nion. ■■(see note) 

AVith some hesitancy the boundaries of the townships are 
omitted, for the reason that their several descriptions wonkl 
make this sketch too voluminous. And for the further 
reason that such boundaries can be and ought to be obtained 
by each board of township trustees, and preserved, to guard 
against the accident of the destruction of the court house 
and the county records by fire. 



The quantitv of land in each township is as follow 



Brush Creek.. 

Concord 

Clay 

Dodson 

Fairfield 

Hamer 

Jackson 

Liberty 

Madison 



Acres 
improved. 
16,860 
15,658 
11,127 
11,994 
19,777 
8,134 
11,461 
21,488 



Wood- 
land. 
8,703 
4,850 
6,543 
4,865 
6,528 
4,25S 
4,099 
8,100 
6,789 



Marshall 

New Market. 

Paint 

Penn 

Salem 

Union 

White Oak .. 
Washington . 



Improved 

land. 
10,595 

9,988 
23,290 
14,389 

7,352 
11,713 
10,375 

9,.55: 



Total of land in tps., 322, 



s : 

Wood- 
land. 
3,509 
4,104 
9,318 
4,563 
3,575 
4,865 
4,880 
4,329 
358 acr. 



The land in the townships is less than the auditor's du- 
plicates show for the whole county, by 2,540 acres, which 
arises from the fact that subsequent surveys of the original 
larger tracts into le-sser ones increases the quantity, because 
all the original surveys and original subdivisions contained 
a surplus. 

The orchards of the county, in the aggregate, according 
to the report of the secretary of state of 1875, contained 
5,116 acres. 



*NoTE. — There was a township called Richland, which compre- 
hended the territory embraced in the act attaching part of Highland 
to Clinton county. But of its organization or boundaries, the record 
can not be found. 





Acres. 


Buahels. 


Wheat, 


;!(J,09S 


3S0,258 


Corn, 


55,720 


1,867,020 


Oats, 


G,433 


58,220 


Barley, 


1 


11 


Rye, ' 


207 


1,082 


Timothy, 


12,989 


5,640 tons 



Xo. 


Valve. 


990 


$.52,969.00 


.5,591 


40,546.00 


2.888 





the county of highland. 9 

For 1874. 
Apples, bu., 160,460; peaches, bu., 36,094; pears, bu., 
2,619; grapes, lbs., 83,925; ^vine, gal., 6,705. 

Other Products for 1874. 

Acres. Bushels. 

Buckwheat, 68 334 

Potatoes, 812 34,736 

Sweet Potatoes, 37 5,155 

Tobacco, 27 11,606 lbs. 

Cloyer, 2,670 863 tons 

of hay, and 753 bu. cloyer seed. 

Butter, lbs., 471,743; cheese, lbs., 6,401; maple sugar, 
lbs., 3,217 ; maple syrup, gal., 4,035. Sorghum : acres, 244 ; 
sugar, 233; syrup, gal., 9,076. 

LiA^E Stock Stati:^[ent for 1874. 

No. Value. 

Horses, 9,995 $-544,000.92 Mules, 

Cattle, 19,778 403,513.00 Sheep, 

Hogs, 44,924 190.35(i.00 Dogs, 

County Auditor's Report 
Of the fo regain g ar/rlruUunil and horticultural producf.'i, etc., 
for the year 1876 : 
The orchards in the county, in the aggregate, according 
to the report of the county auditor for 1876, contain 5,445 
acres. Apples, 460,430 bu. ; peaches, 868 bu. ; pears, 147 
bu. ; grapes, 1,760 lbs. ; wine, 340 gal. ; cheese, 247 lbs. ; 
butter, 452,451 lbs. ; maple sugar, 4,265 lbs. ; maple syrup, 
3,832 gal. ; Sorghum : 325 acres ; sugar, 930 lbs. ; .syrup, 
24,299 gal. 

Other Products. 

Acres. Bushels. Ac7-es. 

Wheat, 25,679 188,579 Tiuiothv, 

Corn, 70,170 2,257,210 Buckwheat, 

Oats, 7,021 89,804 Potatoes, 

Barley, 84 520 Tobacco, 

Eye, ■ 428 2,798 Cloyer, 

Live Stock. 

iS'b. Value. 

Horses, 9,974 $512,279 Mules, 

Cattle, 20,217 425,732 Sheep, 

Hogs, 39,199 199,816 Dogs, 



,858 
113 
971 
101 
528 


14,670 tons. 

913 bu. 
70,335 " 
61,285 lbs. 

199 bu. 


No. 

1,021 

16,065 

2,128 


Value. 
$54,043 
37,740 
2,996 



10 THE HiSTOEY Ol' 

The foregoing statisties are supposed to approximate very 
near to accuracy, as to the live stock statement ; but as to 
the agricultural and horticultural products, they are very 
Vague, because there is no law which compels a tax payer 
on his oath to render a true account of the products of his 
lands, and all such returns are made by loose conjecture ; 
and the author would add, from his personal knowledge of 
the careless mode in which such estimates ai*e made by the 
tax pavers and the assessors, that, as a general rule, the 
quantity and value of the agricultural and horticultural 
products are reported at twenty-five per cent, below the 
maximum value. And he would say, for the information 
of parties, that so variable are the annual agricultural and 
horticultural products of the county, that in one year, in 
many products, they will exceed that of the last year pre- 
ceding, by twenty per cent., or more. 

And, besides, the acreage which is sown and planted, and 
the failure of crops from year to year, as appears from the 
comparison of the auditor's reports in 1874 and 1876, above 
mentioned, are so greatly different ; and excess of yield of 
crops on the same acreage on account of seasons is so great 
in one vcar over another, that it is impossible to present any 
other than the foregoing approximate quantities of the 
products of the county. 

Yatate of 1'roperty 

As.-te.^ftcd for fa.rniion cluring 1875: 

Lands $9,239,700 

Towns and A"illao-es 1,451,580 

Chattel Property 5,032,212 

Total ; $15,723,493 

Total State Tax $ 48,804,60 

Total Local Tax 132,885.80 

Total Taxes..... 18L(i90.40 

The fbrcg()iiig tables exhibit the precise status of the 
property iuterests of the county; and next in order, the 



THl!^ COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 



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progresis of p(>])ulati()n should be presented; Jind, as further 
back than 1810, no eniuneration of any census returns can 
be found, (because our organization commenced in 1805) ; 
therefore, from the peripd of 1810 the census returns can 
only ,be found, and are as foHows : 



1870 
29,133 



Population of the County. 



1860 
27,773 



1850 
>5,781 



1840 1830 

22.269 16,345 



1820 
12,308 



1810 
5,766 



Population of Toavns and Townships in 1870. 



TOWXS AND TOW NSI Ill's. 


H . 


6 
> 


Foreign. 

1 


White. 


Colored. 


Brush Creek 

Sinki n«j Sprin<;' 


1601 
200 

1345 
120 

1262 
112 

1710 
476 

2565 
128 
163 
508 
242 
959 
157 
005 
503 
544 
95 

5189 

2818 

3261 

1712 
821 
514 

1107 
143 

2429 

• 111 

216 

220 

1471 

1029 


1592 
195 

1258 
120 

1236 
987 

1612 
447 

2504 
127 
163 
480 
231 
948 
149 
903 
502 
542 
95 

4817 

2515 

3090 

1582 
813 
507 

1094 
140 

2394 
106 
21 () 
219 

1410 
987 


9 
5 

87 


1554 
199 

1336 
120 

1239 
100 

1705 
474 

2350 
128 
162 
462 
236 
959 
157 
905 
503 
533 
95 

4470 

2430 

2888 

1525 
821 
514 

1091 
143 

2376 
111 
216 
220 

1260 

1022 


47 
1 


Clav 


I) 


"But'ord 




Concord a 


26 
25 
98 
29 
61 
1 


•'3 


Sugar-Tree Ridge 

Dodson 


12 


LyncWnirg 

Fairfiel<l b 


2 
215 


Centertield 




I'jast ]M<jnroe 


1 


Leesburg 

Xew Lexington 

Hanier 


28 

11 

11 

8 

•> 

I 

"""372 
303 
171 
130 

s 

7 

35 

5 


46 
(i 


Dauvillf 




.Taekson '( 




Belfast 




Fairfax a 


11 


North Uniontowu 




Liberty h 

Hillsboro 


719 

388 


Madison 


373 


(Treenficld 

Marshall 


187 


Marshall 




New Market 


16 


New Market 




Paint 

New Boston 


53 


New Petersljurg 




Eainsborough 

Penn b 

Salem 


I 
61 
42 


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12 THE HISTORY OF 

Population op Towns and Townships. — Continued. 



Towns and Townships. 



Princetown 117 

Union 1455 

Washington 972 

Berrvville 78 

White Oak 1052 

Mowrystown 414 

Taylorsville 52 



115 

1447 

947 

77 
941 
333 

52 



2 
8 

25 

1 

111 

81 



117 

1-450 

971 

78 

1052 

414 

52 



a Of Fairfax: 250 in Concord and 294 in Jackson. 
b In 1852 Penn from Fairfield and Liberty. 

••■Note. — The population of Hillsboro, according to the enumer- 
ation taken for school purposes in 1876, is 3,096. 



Churches, Mills, Manufactories, and Hotels. 



TOWNSHIPS. 



Brush Creek 

Concord , 

Clay 

Dodson 

Fairfield 

Hamer 

Jackson 

Liberty 

Marshall 

Madison 

New Market. 

Paint 

Penn 

Union 

Whiteoak.... 
AVashington . 
Salem 



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4 
6 
12 
•> 

6 
13 

9 

7 

10 

4 
6 
4 
3 



o 


1 


2 


3 


1 





5 


2 


1 





2 





4 





1 





1 






1875. 

Marriages. Births. Deaths. Divorces. 

258 720 300 9 



the county of highland. 
Schools and School-Houses — 1875. 



13 



NAMES OF 



TOWNSHIPS. 






Brush Creek 11 

Concord 9 

Clay 9 

Dodson 7 

Fairfield I 10 

Hamer j 6 

Jackson 7 

Liberty 10 

Marshall 5 

Madison i 9 

New Market ' 7 

Paint 15 

Penn 8 

Salem 7 

Union 7 

White Oak 7 

Washington S 

Hillsboro 2 

And Tern. College 

And College 

Greenfield 

Leesburg 

Lynchburg 

New Lexington 

New Petersburg 

Russell Station 



$.'),000i 
5,000 : 

ii'iJio! 

(),000| 



6,000 i 
1,500| 
7,200! 
4,500! 

17,884! 
l,200i 



fi.MOO 
5,000; 
40,000 ! 
80,000 i 
20,000' 
10,000, 
10,000; 

" 6^00 1 
2,700 



12 

10 

9 

12 

19 

7 

8 

9 
9 



12 
7 

11 
7 
8 

13 
o 
7 

10 
4 
4 



1^, 



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Totals i 142 



1482441 223 



Boys . 

Girls. 



4,380 
3,890 



Total 8,278 

Abstract of Votes foe President in 1876. 

Republican 3,341 

Democratic 3,323 

Prohibition 9 

Total 0,072 

Abstract of Votes for Governor. 



429 
367 
457 
283 
453 
331 
249 
558 
251 
513 
341 
656 
357 
165 
301 
334 
309 
727 
30 
71 
509 
180 
171 
101 
74 
162 



8278 



1875 


1865 


1855 


1815 


18;!5 


1825 


1S15 


1810 


6,375 


4,758 


3,808 


4,341 


2,011 




456 


491 



14 the history of 

Banks. 

National Banks 3 Capital $250,000.00 

Private Banks 2 Capital 78,000.00 

Total §;]2S,000.00 

Dry goods stores, fancy stores, groceries, stores, carpen- 
ter shops, shoemaker stores and shops, hardware stores and 
blacksmith shops are too nnmerons to be mentioned. In 
addition to the foregoing property interests, there are four- 
teen free turnpike roads, of the total aggregate length of 
one hundred and twenty four miles ; and also, there are ten 
miles of the H. & C. railroad completed from Lynchburg, 
to Hillsboro ; and there are also about twenty miles of 
the M. & C. railroad, in running order, from Vienna to 
Green Held. 

The debts of the county in 1<S75, are as follows: 

Debts of the county S l,SOO.i:^ 

Debts of the townships 

Debts of the villages 11,000.00 

Debts of school districts 5,498.52 

Total debts '. $18,298.68 

Hii.LSBORo Markets. 

Corroctod weekly by Miller & Qfinn, Wholesale and Retail Grocers, 
High street. 



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Corn Meal, per bu.... 


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Lard, per lb 

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Sorghum ]\Iolasse8... 

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The foregoing statistical tables, and the occasional expla- 
nations attached to each, are believed in the main to present 
an accurate statement of the subject matter contained in 
each table, and an accurate outline of the relative condition 
of the county, as to each one of such subject matters. 

In tlie next chapter will l)e found a statement under sep- 
arate heads, of the contributions of Highland county to the 
civil and military service of the United States, and the 
civil service of the State of Ohio, etc., etc. 



CHAPTER II. 

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CIVIL SERVICE. 

"TiriGHLAND COUNTY has contributed to the civil 
service of the United States : 

William A. Trimble, of Hillsboro, ()., elected senator of the 
United States in 1819, and served until 1822, when he died. 

Joseph J. McDowell, of Hillsboro, O., elected to Congress 
in 1843, and re-elected in 1844, and served two terms.* 

Nelson Bakkere, of Hillsboro, O., elected in 1850, and served 
one term. 

Jonas R. Emru:, of Hillsboro, O., elected in 1854, and served 
one term. 

John A. Smith, of Hillsboro, O., elected in 18()8, and re-elect- 
ed in 1870; served two terms. 

Henry L. Dickey, of Greenfield, O., elected in October, 1876, 
and present member. 

HeprtHentatives in Co)ujre.s.s front other counties than 
Highland. 

Jeremiah Mijrrow, of Warren county, from 1805 to 1813. 

Duncan Mc Arthur and Wm. Creighton, Jr., of Ross county, 
from 1813 to 1815. 

Wm. Ckeighton, Jk., of Ross county, from 1815 to 1817. 

John W. Campbell, of Adams county, from 1817 to 1827. 

Wm. Russell, of Adams county, from 1827 to 1831. 

Thomas Corwin, of Warren county, from 1831 to 1840. 

Jeremiah ^NIokkow, of AVarren county, from 1841 to 1843. 

Thomas L. Hamer, of Brown county, elected in 1 847 ; died 
in Mexico, previous to the convening of Congress, to which he 



*The annual conjiressional election of 184;} and 1844 occurred on 
account of tlie failure of the (ieneral Assembly in the extra session 
of 1.S4L', to district tiic state under the census of 1840. 



thp: county of highland. 17 

Was elected, being at tlie time of his death, a general in the mil- 
itary service of the United States. 

Jonathan Morris, of Clermont county, from 1847 to 1851. 

Andrew Ellison, of Brown county, from 1853 to 1855. 

J. R. CocKERiLL, of Adams county, from 1857 to 1859. 

Wm. H. Howard, of Clermont county, from 1859 to 1861. 

C. A. White, of Brown county, from 1861 to 1865. 

R. W. Clark, of Clermont county, from 1865 to 1869. 

Lawrence T. Neal, of Ross county, from 1873 to 1877. 

Other itieinbers of Congress, natives of Highland county, and 
educated therein . 

Cary a. Trimble, of Ross county, O,, member from 10th 
congressional district of Ohio, from 1859 to 1863. 

Granville Barrere, member from 9th district, Illinois, from 
1875 to 1877. 

Collectors of Revenue. 

John M. Johnson, of Hillsboro, O. 

Zenos Hanley, of Hillsboro, O. 

W. O. Collins, of Hillsboro, O. 

Wm. M. Meek, of Hillsboro, O., appointed United States 
commissioner in 1859, and is the present incumbent. 

Deputy U. S. Marshals. 

David Miller, W. H. Woodroav, E. J. Blount, Jas. W. 
DoGGETT, and Samitel Ly'le, present incumbent, all of Hills- 
boro, O. 

James H. Thompson, of Hillsboro, O., Register in bankru|)t- 
cy ; appointed in 1867, and now in office, and before whom have 
been filed one hundred and thirty-nine voluntary and four invol- 
untary petitions in bankruptcy, viz: 

From Brown county, 29 ; Clermont, 3; C'linton, 35; Fayette, 
46; Highland, 30. 

Postmasters at Hillsboro. 
James D. Scott, Cary A. Trimble, John A, Trimble, R. 
D. Lilley, J. R. Emrie, R. H. Ayres, Jacob Kirby', Daniel 
Browning, John Baskin, G. W. Lawrence, W. R. Smith 
and J. M. Barrere. 
2 



18 the histohy op" 

Military Service of the U. S. , and the State of Ohio. 

Col. Wm. a. Trimble, major of the 26th V. S. hifantry ; 
brevetted in 1814 as colonel of the Hth U. S. infantry. 

Cary a. Trimble, brevetted in 1814 as cajitain of first rifle 
regiment, U. S. army. 

The War of 1H12. 

One volunteer rifle company, enlisted and mustered into service 
by Capt. Geo. W. Barrere, of New Market, and William 
Davidson as lieutenant. 

One volunteer infantry company, enlisted and mustered into 
service by John Jones, of Hillsboro, as captain, and James Pat- 
terson as lieutenant. 

Under the General Call of 181."). 

One regiment of infantry, enlisted and called into service by 
Wm. Keys, of Hillsboro, O. , as colonel, and Allen Trimble as 
major, James Daniel as adjutant, Dr. Jasper Hand as sergeant, 
and Augustus Rictiards as sergeant's mate; consisting, in part, 
of the following companies from Highland county, enlisted and 
mustered into service by the following officers : C^apt. John .Tones, 
Capt. James Patterson, Capt. Hu(iH Kocjers, Capt. Joel 
Berryman. 

The lieutenants' names can not hv ascertained by inquiry among 
the oldest inhabitants. 

Mexican War. 

Infantry company: David Irick, capt. ; Jackson Kennifk, 
1st lieutenant, and Samuel D. Stewart, 2d lieutenant. 

All the above officers were from Hillsboro, and the company 
was recruited in Highland county. During the war, Capt. Irick 
died, and Lieut. Kennipi: was promoted to captain, and Lieut. 
Stewart was promoted to 1st lieutenant, and the (")ni])any thus 
officered was attat^hed to the 2d Ohio regiment, under the com- 
mand of Col. (teor(;e W. Morgan; and for brave and gallant 
conduct of Lieut. Samuel D. Stewart, at the battle of San 
Francisco, February 24th, 1847, which is tlius reported: 

"But, bcinji surrounded on (>very side by the enemy, (V)l. Morgan 
"thoujilit it i)ru(h'iit to st-nil a coiirior to overtake Lieut. Col. IitwiN. 



THR COUNTY OI^ HlGttl.ANt). 19 

"Lieut. Stkwakt, of Higlil;in<l county, volunteered to discliarge the 
"perilous duty. The lancers lined the chapperal within iifty yards 
"of the road, as far as the eye could see. Lieut. Stew.vrt, with a 
" friendly Mexican and an American, dashed out on the road, and the 
"enemy opened a heavy tire from both sides of the chapperal. The 
" Mexican was killed, and the American wounded; but Stewart dash- 
"ed gallantly on." 

A gold mounted sword was voted to him by the Congress of 
the United States; and he was also promoted to the office of 
lieutenant iu the reuulai- army of the United States. 



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THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 29 

Proimt Marshah of Highland Coiuity. — William S(X)TT and 
Joseph K. Marley. 

Militavy County Committee during the War of the Rebellion. — 
\Vm. R. Smith, Ends Holmes, John H. Jolly and James H. 
Thompson, of Hillsboro; and Hp:nky L. Dickey, of Greenfield. 

Dnring the War of the Rebellion, under the act of Conaress 
authorizing a draft, J. K. Marley, of Hillsboro, O., was provost 
niai-shal; Georoe B. Gardner, of Hillsboro, O., commissioner; 
and Dr. David Noble, of Hillsboro, O., surgeon; and they, with 
E. J. Blount, clerk, constituted the board of enrollment from 
May, 1863, to April, 1865. 

The foregoing- abstract, taken frora the volume entitled: 
" Ohio and the War; her Statesmen, her Generals and Sol- 
diers," by AVhitelaw Reed, is believed to be true and accu- 
rate as to Highland county. 

If the names of any officers be omitted, it will not be for 
want of most diligent search on the part of the author, as to 
all those officers who participated in the late war; and if it 
should be thought by some persons that the names of the 
|)rivates ought also to have been inserted, the compiler 
would say that it w'as almost impossible to find the names 
and places of residence of the private soldiers of each com- 
pany ; and besides this, the insertion of their names, even 
if known, would make this work too voluminous for any 
practical purpose. 

Besides the foregoing regular enlistments on account of 
the war, there w^ere mustered into the service several other 
volunteer companies and regiments, for a short time, in de- 
fense of the city of Cincinnati, and the town of Ripley, <»n 
the Ohio river, which were tb.reatened by the danger of in- 
vasion from the (H)posite side of the river. 

There were what was called the " Eagle C*reek Expedi- 
tion;" the "Squirrel Hunters," enlisted in defense of Cin- 
cinnati; the enlistment of men for the "hundred day's ser- 
vice;" and the most noted of all was the regiment enlisted, 
armed and e(|uipped for the assistance of General Hop>son 



30 THK HISTORY OF 

in pursuit of John Morxjan in his raid through the state 
of Ohio, This regiment united with General HoBSOx's 
comniand, and aetively participated in tiie battle with and 
capture of John Mor(;an and liis forces at Buffington's 
island, — and was there, after the battle, disbanded by Gen- 
eral HoiiSoN, with hiti'h coniplinients for its efticiency and 
bi-avery. 

Hio'hland county, from its organization, kept up and sus- 
tained its i-clat in the militia system of the state, so long as 
that system was practically enforced by the laws of the 
state. F)Ut as the practice of that system since the war has 
become uttei'ly dormant and inefficient, latterly the military 
spirit of the county, whicli is always irrepressible, has be- 
gun to develop itself in the organization of companies and 
regiments of infantry and cavalry, called the " Ohio Na- 
tional (juard." In this latter movement. Highland county 
has been j)rom|)t in its assistance, by the organization of one 
infantry company, called the " Noble fiightCjiuards," in honor 
of David Noiu.k, of Hillsboro, who by his generosity has 
contributed largely to its equipment; and by the organiza- 
tion of a cavalry company, called the "Scott Dragoons," in 
honor of William Scott, of Hillsboro, who has also lib- 
erally conti'ibuted to its equi])ment. 

Since the organization of the infantry (?om])any, I)t)ctor 
David Noble has been ])romoted to the office of colonel of 
the 13th regiment of Ohio National (Juards, and the follow- 
ing is the roster of said two com])anies: 

13th Regiment Ohio National Giiarch. 
DoctDi- David iSor.Li:, of Hillslioro, ()., ((iloiicl. 

Noble Light Guards. 

.biiix Matthkws, (•a|)taiii. A. W. ]\b)VKR, 1st cor]). 

Ivou'r S. WoooKow, Isl liiiit. W. V. Woodkow, 2(1 cDip. 

B. H. Snii'i', 2(1 lieut. Joiix 'i\ Hrni:, ."Jd c()i|). 

C'liAs. A. l>Ai:i;v, 1st sergt. -loiiN A. Ki;i;d, Jr., 4tli coip. 



THK C'OrXTV OF HICHLAND. 31 

W. C. Newkll, 2d sergt. W. H. Grkc*;, 'Ah cov]). 

CiiA.s. B. Ambrose, 8d sergt. J. W. Tudor, (ith corp. 

,J()s. M. !S('iiOTT, 4tli sergt. Frank R. Glasscock, 7th ('()r[). 

R. T. HoiMiii, color sergt. W. G. Smith, 8th cor}). 

Privates. — C. H. Adams, Walter D. Ayres, Charles E. Ik-ll, 
Flint Rockhold, Augustus Harmau, B. F. Johnson, William A. 
Harman, Clarksoii Lytle, Nat. ^M. DeBruin, W. B. Hardacre, 
Frank S. Glenn, George W. Barrere, Albert Matthews, Fred .1. 
Picard, Jos. M. Hibben, Wm. Matthews, Louis Lazarus, Robert 
:M. Ditty, Will B. Barrere, Allen Strain, Frank Hoftenberger, 
Geo. S. Trimble, Chas. W. Woodrow, Thomas H. Langley, Geo. 
W. H. Roush, Edward L. Boardinan, Thos. R. Callahan, Har- 
ness V. Quinn, Edwin F. Garrett, James Boyd Herron, ('lar- 
ance M. Overman, John R. Sayler, (-harles H. Meek, Edwin 
Sloane, John R. Callahan, Albert Dryden, Ernest (Jopes, Cyius 
Newby, Rollin E. Harwood, (reorge H. Sanderson, Wm. Carson, 
Edward E. Holmes, Austin W. Devoss, T. Elwood Nelson. 

Scott Dragoons. 

Wm. Schwartz, ca]>tain. Wm. Lemox, 2d corp. 

Ei). E. Mi:leemx, 1st lieut. G. B. Brooksrank, od corj). 

Ez Stevenson, 2d lieut. Louis Wessell, 4th corp. 

J. C. Richards, 1st sergt. Emanuel Youncj, r)th corp. 

-Iosiah Stevenson, 2d sergt. R. G. Cooley, 6th coi-p. 

John L. Duckwall, 3d sergt. Wm, Cooper, 7th cor[). 

.Ias. R. Ferguson, 4th sergt. F. Evans, 8th corp. 

Louis Robinson, 5th sergt. Ed. S. Docgett, trumpeter. 

S. S. Bayi>ess, 1st corp. Ed. Wasson, 2d trumpeter. 

Privates. — John Arthur, Wm. Ballentine, T. B. Carlisle, Ed 
Cooper, Ed Colvin, Wm. C. Duckwall, H. C. Dogge'tt, A. P. 
Fawley, John HuiFenberger, Alvin Home, Leo Haymann, Rob'l 
-Jolly, A. E. Koch, Wm. Larkin, Jacob Merkle, das. Nordykc, 
Chris Paley, A. Schilley, H. Sdicinslx'rger, Amiel Smith. Thos. 
Templin, T. J. Wilkin. 

Some of the officers connected with tiie above companies 
are experienced military nn-n. having served in the. army 
during the Kelxdlion, pai'ticularly tin' C()h)nel ol" the Regi- 



32 THE HISTORY OF 

iment, and W. C. Newell. Scott Dmyooii-'^: E. E. Mullinix, 
1st lieut., and Ez Stevenson, 2d lieut. 

And the privates of the companies, being recruited from the 
best families of the county, are characterized for their gal- 
hmt bearing as citizen-soldiers, and in personnel, drill and 
ecjuipment are up to the highest standard of army regula- 
tions, and, in the oi)inion of their friends, on any field of 
battle, would earn and deserve the highest eclat for yaloi- 
and death-like daring in the fore-front of the fight. 



Highland County has contributed to the Civil 
Service of the State of Ohio: 

Executive Department. 

Allen Trimble, of Highland county, being speaker of the 
senate, became acting governor in the place of Gov. Brown, 
from January 3d, 1822, until January, 1823. 

Allen Trimble, elected governor in 1826, and served in 1<S27 
and 1828, and by re-election served in 1829 and 1830. 

Moses H. Kirby, of Highland county, elected secretai-y of 
state, and served in 1831 and 1832. 

Allen Trimble, of Highland county, elected state canal com- 
missioner, and served from 1824 to 182(i. 

.JoiiN M. Barrere, of Highland county, elected member of 
the board of public works in 18(33 and 18()(), and served two 
terms. 

Legislative Department — Senate. 

Allen Trimble, elected and served as speaker of the senate, 
in 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824 and 1825. 

Richard Collins, elected and served as clerk of the senate, 
in 1818, 1819 and 1820. 

George W. Barrere, elected and served as senator, in 1808, 
1809, 1812, 1813, 1814 and 1815. 

Samuel Evans, 1810, 1811 and 181(i. 

Allen Trimble, 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821, ls22, 1823, 
1824 and 1825. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 33 

John Jones, 1826, 1827 and 1828. 

MosE.s Carothers, 1829, 1830, 1831 aud 1832. 

Joseph J. McDowell, 1833, 1834 and 1835, (extra session.) 

Jacob Kirby, 1885 and 1836. 

Thomas Patterson, 1839 and 1840. 

John M. Barrere, 1843, 1844, 1854 and 1855. 

Jonas R. Emrie, 1847 and 1848. 

RuEL Beeson, 1849 and 1850. 

Samuel E. Hibbin, 1851 and 1852. 

Jacob Hyer, 1856 and 1857. 

AV. O. Collins, 1860 and 1861. 

Silas Irion, 1866. 

Henry L. Dickey, 1867, 1868 and 1869. 

Henry A. Shepherd, 1874 and 1875. 

House of Representatives. 

Joseph Swearinoin, elected and served in 1808, 1817 and 
1818. 

John Gossett, 1809. 

Samuel Reece, 1810. In this year the legislature convened 
at Zanesville. 

James Johnson, 1811, 1812 and 1815. 

John Davidson, 1813 and 1814. 

Allen Trimble, 1816. 

John Jones, 1818 and 1828. 

Moses Patterson, 1820, 1824 and 1825. 

Richard Collins, 1821, 1822, 1823 and 1826. 

Moses H. Kirby, 1827 and 1830. 

David Reece, 1831, 1836 and 1840. 

Joseph J. McDowell, 1832. 

Robert D. Lilley, 1833. 

Jacob Kirby, 1834 and 1835. 

George Collings, 1837. 

Thomas Patterson, 1838. 

Andrew Baskin, 1839. 

John A. Smith, 1841. 

Abraham Lowman, 1841. (Highland countyhad two rc])re- 
sentatives in 1841.) 

Ezekh:l Brown, 1844, 
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34 THE HISTOEY OF 

Wm. H. Trimble, 1845, 1846 and 1847. 
HuuH Smart, 1848. 

Chrihtopiier Matthews, 1854 and 1855. (Under new con- 
stitution.) 

Silas Irion, 1856 and 1857. 

John L. Huohes, 1858, 1859, 1868, 186U, 1870 and 1871. 

John H. Jolly, 1860 and 1861. 

C. B. Miller, 1860 and 1861. 

K H. Hickson, 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1865. 

David M. Barrett, 1866 and 1867. 

P. N. Wickerham, 1872 and 1873. 

Thomas H. Baskin, 1874 and 1875. 

H. C. Dawson, 1876 and 1877; re-elected for 1878 and 187!). 

Judicial Department. 

For the sake of brevity, under this section, the office ot 
judges, clerks, sheriifs, and prosecuting attorneys will all he 
classified and designated as to their terms and times of 
office in this manner, viz : The terms of the courts men- 
tioned hereafter will show when ever there was any change 
in the officers above specified ; and from the terms of the 
courts it will be seen at once when any officer or judge 
came into office, and when his predecessor passed out. 

Nyav Market, 1805. — Robert Slaughter, ])residing 
judge; Richard Evans, John Davidson and Jonathan Ber- 
ry jnan, associates; Abram J. Williams, prosecuting attorney ; 
David Hays, clerk; Anthony Franklin, sheriflF, 

Court held at Hillsboro, November 9th, 1807. — 
Lcriii L. />('/(', presiding judge ; Richard Evans, «ronatiuin 
Berryman and John Davidson, associates. Before the re- 
moval of the seat of justice from Newmarket, during one 
term of the court, a man by the name of Joseph (^uillon 
was found guilty of a charge of theft, and was sentenced 
by the court to be fined, and imprisoned ten days; and for 
want of a jail, he was imprisoned in an unfinished well, with 
rails placed over it for security. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 35 

At the (Vtol)or term, 1808, at Hillsboro, the following 
judgment was entered : 

The State of Ohio ^ 
versm 
Francis Knott. 

"The prisoner was brought to the bar in custody of the jailor, 
"and being demanded l)y the judge if any objection he had why 
"judgment should not be pronounced against him, replied he had 
"none; whereupon it is considered by the court that he be whip- 
' ' ped eleven stripes on his naked back — that he shall pay to John 
"Moore, the person from whom he took the money, ten dollars; 
' ' that he be fined ten dollars ; also, that he pay the costs of this 
" prosecution, and that he be imprisoned until the judgment of 
" this court be complied with." 

The sentence of the court in this case was executed by 
tving Francis Knott to a beech tree on Short street, in Hills- 
boro, and by the infliction of the stripes on his naked back 
by Augustus Richards, sheriff. It is disputable in the 
minds of many, whether the above two mentioned cases of 
severe punishment do not contribute more towards nuiking 
law-abiding citizens than the present mode of punishment 
by confinement in the county jail for petty offenses. But 
be this as it may, there has never been a conviction in the 
county for a capital offense, and there never has been a case 
in which public sentiment demanded such conviction. 

At Hillsboro, Ohio, 1808, Court began and held. — 
Levin L. Belt, presiding judge ; Richard Evans, John Da- 
vidson and Jonathan Berryman, associates ; Allen Trimble, 
clerk ; Abraham J. WilliamH, prosecuting attorney ; Aiigu.s- 
tus Richards, sheriff. 

November Term, 1810. — John Thompso)i, presiding 
judge; Nathaniel Pope, John Boyd and Samuel Bell, associ- 
ates; James Daniels, prosecuting attorney; Augustus Rich- 
ards, sheriff. 



36 THE HISTORY OF 

April Term, 1811. — Same judges and clerk; John W. 
Campbell, prosecuting attorney ; Samuel Harvey, sheriff. 

April Term, 1812. — Same judges and clerk; Levin L. 
Belt, prosecuting attorney ; Samuel Harvey, sheriff. 

April Term, 1813. — Same judges, clerk, and prosecut- 
ing attorney ; Wm. Curry, sheriff. 

April Term, 1814. — Same judges and clerk; Samuel 
Daniels, prosecuting attorney ; Wm. Curry, sheriff. 

April Term, 1815. — Same judges and clerk; W((de 
Luffborough, prosecuting attorney ; John Jones, sheriff'. 

March Term, 1816. — John Thompson, presiding judge; 
Nathaniel Pope, John Boyd and G. W. Barrcre, associates; 
Samuel Bell, appointed clerk ; Richard Collins, prosecuting 
attorney ; John Jones, sheriff. 

March Term, 1818. — John Thompson, presiding judge, 
John Boyd, G. W. Barrere, Iloses H. Gregg, associates; 
Richard Collins, prosecuting attorney ; John Jones, sheriff, 
and same clerk. 

March Term, 1819. — Same judges, clerk and prosecu- 
ting attorney; Joseph Dryden, sheriff. 

March Term, 1821. — Same judges and clerk; G. R. 
Fitzgercdd, prosecuting attorney ; Wdliam Wright, sheriff, 
and same clerk. 

October Term, 1822 — John Thompson, presiding judge ; 
John Boyd, Joseph Sivearingen and G. W. Barrere, associ- 
ates ; G. R. Fitzgerald, prosecuting attorney; William 
Wright, sheriff, and same clerk. 

October Term, 1823. — Same judges and clerk; Rich- 
ard Collins, prosecnting attorney; John ,/o?/r.s', sheriff, and 
same clerk, 

April TER^r, 1824. — Joshua Collett, presiding judge; 
same associates; G. R. Fitzgerald, ])rosecuting attorney; 
John Jones, sheriff, and same clerk. 

April Term, 1827. — Same judges, clerk and prosecuting 
attorney ; Amos Granthata, sheriff. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGPILAND. 37 

March Term, 1829. — George J. Smith, presiding judge; 
John Boyd, G. W. Barrere and Joseph Swearingen, as.soci- 
ates; Samuel Bell, clerk; G. R. Fitzgerald, prosecuting 
attorney; Amos Grantham, sheriff. 

July Term, 1830. — -.Same presiding judge; John Boyd, 
Hoses Pdfferson and John Matthews, associates ; same clerk ; 
G. R. Fitzgerald, prosecuting attorney ; Amos Grantham, 
sheriff, 

July Term, 1831. — Same judges and clerk; John W. 
Price, prosecuting attorney ; David Miller, sheriff. 

April Term, 1833. — Same presiding judge ; Moses 
Patterson, John Matthews and Hugh Smart, associates; 
Samuel Bell, clerk ; Win. Scott, prosecuting attorney ; David 
Miller, sheriff. 

March Term, 1834. — John W. Price, presiding judge ; 
John Matthews, INIoses Patterson and Hugh Smart, associ- 
ates ; Samuel Bell, clerk ; Wm. Scott, prosecuting attorney; 
David Miller, sheriff'. 

April Term, 1835. — Same judges, clerk and prosecut- 
ing attorney ; Andrew Baskin, sheriff. 

July Term, 1836. — Same presiding judge; Moses 
Patterson, John Matthews, and P. D. LiUey, associates ; 
Samuel Bell, clerk ; same prosecuting attorney ; Andrew 
Baskin, sheriff. 

March Term, 1837. — Same presiding judge; R. D. 
Lilley, Wm. C. Scott and John Matthews, associates ; Sam- 
uel Bell, clerk; W. 0. Collins, prosecuting attorney; A. 
Baskin, sheriff. 

March Term, 1839. — Same judges, clerk and prosecu- 
ting attorney ; Benjamin Chaney, sheriff. 

March Term, 1841. — Owen T. Fishhack, presiding 
judge ; John Matthews, R. D. Lilley and Wm. C. Scott, 
associates ; Samuel Bell, clerk ; Dan Scott, prosecuting at- 
torney, and same sheriff. 



88 THE HISTORY OF 

March Term, 1843. — Same judges, same clerk, aiul 
same prosecuting attorney ; Edward 8. Beeson, sheriif. 

April Term, 1844. — Owen T. Fishback, presiding 
judge; R. D. Lilley, Philip W. Spargur and John Eckiium, 
associates; S. Bell, clerk; Daniel Scott, prosecuting attorney ; 
Edward S. Beesbn, sheriff. 

April Term, 1847. — Same judges and clerk ; Hilas Irion, 
prosecuting attorney, and same sheriff. 

March Term, 1848,— ^George ColUngs, presiding judge ; 
R. D. Lilley, Philip W. Spargur and John Eckman, associ- 
ates ; S. Bell, clerk ; Daniel Scott, prosecuting attorney ; 
Thomas 8, Hhoades, sheriff. 

April Term, 1849. — Same judges and clerk ; JoJiii Tome, 
prosecuting attorney ; Dajvid Fen-wick, sheriff. 

April Tp^rm, 1850.— -Geo. CoUings, presiding judge ; 
P. W. Spargur, John Eckman and John Duvall, associates; 
Samuel Bell, clerk ; John Torrie, prosecuting attorney ; 
David Fenwick, sheriff. 

April Term, 1851. — Same presiding judge; John Du- 
vall, Thomafi Barry and N. N. Delaplane, associates ; Sam- 
uel Bell, clerk ; John Torrie, prosecuting attorney ; David 
Fenwick, sheriff. 

August Term, 1851. — 8hepherd T. Norrix, presiding 
judge; same associates, clerk and sheriff 

Under New Constitution. 

April Term, 1852. — John Ij. Green, presiding judge ; 
John W. Bell, clerk ; David Fenwick, sheriff. 

April Term, 1853. — Same judge and clerk; Joi<ep]t H. 
MuUeuix, sheriff'; 11. B. 8tevenmn, prosecuting attorney. 

April Term, 1855. — Same judge; G. F. Stephens, clerk ; 
James II. iioihrock, prosecuting attorney ; J. H. Mulleuix, 
sheriff. 

April Term, 1H57. — ./crmcs /SYomu', judge ; (i. F. Stev- 



THE COUNTY OF lIIOIILAXl). 39 

ens, clerk ; C. A. Sheaf c, proseeuting attorney; T/ioiiKtu II, 
I>((f<ki».s, sheriff. 

Ai'i{TT> Tei:m, 18rj8, — A. S. Dickci/, presiding judge; 
same jiroseeuting attorney ; G. F. Stephens, ehu'k ; Thomas 
H. Baskin, sheriff. 

Apuie Tp:rm,. 1859. — ^Same judge; Ben Flord^ clerk; 
John 31. Dorman, prosecuting attorney ; R. W. Sparg^ir, 
sheriff. Ben Flora, clerk, resigned, and W. H. WoodroV' 
appointed, and served until 1861. 

April Term, 1860. — B. 31. Bri(j()><, presiding judge ; 
John A. Trlinb(e, clerk; John M. Dorman, prosecuting at- 
torney ; R. W. S])argur, sheriff. 

April Term, 1861. — A. S. Dickey and 11. M. Briggs, 
judges; same clerk; ll'^ //. Irwin, prosecuting attorney; 
\l. W. Spargur, sheriff. 

ApPvIE Term, 1867. — Same judge and clerk; W. H. Ir- 
win, prosecuting attorney;. John B. Hays, sheriff. 

April Terai, 1868. — Same judge and clerk ; E. M. De- 
15ruin, prosecuting attorney, and same sheriff'. 

April Term, 1869.-11%. H. Saffonl, judge; II. W. 
Spargur, clerk; E. M. DeBruin, prosecuting attorney; 
John B. Hays, sheriff, 

April Term, 1870. — Wm. H. Safford, judge; Johnston 
E. Jackaon, clerk; E. M. DeBruin, prosecuting attorney; 
John B. Hays, sheriff. 

April Term, 1871. — Same judge, clerk and ])rosecuting 
attorney; Oivy T. Pope, sheriff. 

April Term, 1^11.— Samuel F. Steel, judge; R. W. 
Spargur, clerk by a])pointment; E. M. DeBruin, prosecu- 
ting attorney ; Cary T. Pope, sheriff. 

April Term, 1873. — Same judge; Jesse K. Pirkerinc/, 
aj)])ointed clerk, and served the remainder of his term; 
same prosecuting attorney, and same sheriff'. 

January Term, 1874. — T. 3f. Orai/, j)residing judge; 



40 THE HISTORY 01" 

R. T. Hough, clerk; Jas. 31. Dumenil, prosecuting attor- 
ney ; C. T. Pope, sheriiF. 

May Term, 1875. — Same judge, clerk and prosecuting 
attorney ; Win. C. NevjcK, sheriff. 

May Term, 1876. — John 31. Vanmefer, judge ; same 
clerk ; same prosecuting attorney, now in office ; same sher- 
iff, now in office. 

October Election, 1876. — Hon. S. F. Steel, re-elected 
and present judge; J. 31. Hughe y, elected clerk; Wm. J. 
Boyd, elected county surveyor. 

Probate Judges of Highland County, under the Constitution 
of 1851. 

Jonas E,. Emrie, elected in 1851, and served 3 years. 

A. G. Matthews, elected in 1854, and served 3 years. 

R. D. Lilley, elected in 1857, and served 3 years. 

A. G. Matthews, elected in 1860, and served 3 years. 

■ Wm. M. Meek, elected in 1863, re-elected in 1866, and 
for a third term in 1869; served 9 years. 

J. C. Norton, elected in 1872, and re-elected in 1875, 
and judge now in office. 

County Auditors. 

By an act of" the general assembly, passed February 8th, 
1820, the office of county auditor was created, and made 
elective by the general assembly of the state. 

In March, 1821, William Keys was elected by the legis- 
lature, and contiiuied in office by subsequent elections made 
by the people after the office became elective by them, un- 
til 1829. 

March 2d, 1829. — Jos. Woodrow succeeded him by J^op- 
ular election, and served until August 11th, 1832, when lie 
died, and was succeeded by Joshua Woodrow, Jr., by ap- 
pointment, who served until March, 1833. 

March 4th, 1833.— Matthew Waddell sncceeded him, and 
served by successive elections until 1839. 



THE COUNTV OF HlGHT.ANJ:). 41 

March 4th, 1839. — Joshua Woodrow succoeded liim by 
election. 

March 1st, 1841. — Matthew AVaddell succeeded him, and 
continued in office 4 years. 

March 3d, 1845. — Samuel Johnson succeeded liini. 

March 1st, 1847.— Matthew Waddell succeeded him. 

March 5th, 1849. — William H. Woodrow succeeded him, 
and continued in office until March 5th, 1855. 

March 5th, 1855. — James Reece succeeded him. 

March 2d, 1857. — John A. Patterson succeeded him. 

March 7th, 1859. — James Reece succeeded him, and con- 
tinued in office until March, 1863. 

March 2d, 1863. — Joseph Morrow succeeded liini. 

March 5th, 1865. — Edwin Arthur succeeded him, and 
continued in office until March, 1869. 

March 1st, 1869. — Daniel Murphy succeeded him, and 
continued in office until November, 1873. 

November 10th, 1873. — Edward M. DeBruin succeeded 
him, and is the present incumbent. 

County Commissioners. 

No records of county commissioners prior to 1811 can be 
found, and from that period the names of county commis- 
sioners are noted as follows: 

1811. — E. B. Smith, Jesse Baldwin and Morgan Yan- 
meter. 

1,S12. — E. B. Smith, Jesse Baldwin and Moses Patt(n-son. 

1S13. — Jesse Baldwin, Moses Patterson and John Mat- 
thews, Jr. 

1814. — Moses Patterson, John Afatthews, Jr., and .Vmos 
Evans. 

1815. — John ^latthews, Amos Evans and Jesse Baldwin. 

1816. — Pleasant Arthur, Jesse Baldwin and Amos Evans. 

1817. — Jesse Baldwin, Pleasant Arthur and Moses Pat- 
terson. 



42 THE HISTORY OP 

],S1<S. — Moses Patterson, Newton Doggett and Pleasant 
Arthur. 

1819, — Newton Doggett, Pleasant Arthur and Amos 
Evans. 

],S22. — Newton Doggett, John Matthews and John 
Wasson. 

1823. — John Matthews, John Wasson and Wm. David- 
son. 

1825. — Wni. Davidson, John ISIatthews and David lleece. 

1828. — John Matthews, William Davidson and Moses 
Caroihers. 

1829. — John Matthews, David lieece and Samuel Mc- 
Clure. 

1830. — Samuel McClure, David Reece and John Farris. 

1831.— Pleasant Arthur, Philip W. Spargur and Wm. 
Carothers. 

1832. — Pleasant Arthur, Wm. Carothers and Thomas 
Patterson. 

1833. — Wm. Carothers, Thomas Patterson and Newton 
Doggett. 

1834. — Thomas Patterson, Newton Doggett and John H. 
Mitchell. 

1835.— Newton Doggett, John IT. Mitchell and John W. 
Spargur. 

1837. — John H. Mitchell, Newton Doggett and Claiborn 
Lea. 

1838.~Newton Dogget, Claiborn Dea and Philip Wil- 
kins. 

1839.— Claiburn Lea, Philip Wilkins and John iJaskin. 

1840. — Philip Wilkins, John Baskin and Sanuicl Smith. 

1841. — John Baskin, Samuel Smith and John Littler. 

1842. — Samuel Smith, John Littler and John W. S])argur. 

1843. — John Littler, John W. Spargur and David Fen- 
wick. 

1844. — lolm W. Spargur, David Fenwiek and William 
Cochran. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 43 

1845. — John W. Sparo-ur, David Fenwick and N. ^X. 
Ay res. 

1846. — X. W. Ayres, Joel Tliunnan and John W. S])ar- 
gnr. 

1847. — John W. Spargm*, N. W. Ayrcs and Joel Thnr- 
man. 

1848. — N. W. Ayres, Joel Thurnian and Sampson Renoe. 

1849. — N. W. Ayres, Sampson Renoe and Edward Eas- 
ton . 

1850. — Sampson Renoe, Edward Easton and diaries 
Robinson. 

1851. — Charles Robinson, P^dward Easton and Henry 
Wilkins. 

1852. — Charles Robinson, Henry Wilkins and Benjamin 
Cowgill. 

1853.^ — C'liarles Robinson, Henry Wilkins and Benjamin 
Cowgill. 

1854. — Charles Robinson, Benjamin Cowgill and John 
Haigh. 

1855. — Charles Robinson, John Haigh and Philip Ronsh. 

1^5(). — John Haigh, Philip Roush and Abraham Low- 
man. 

1857. — Philip Roush, Abraham liOwman and Benjamin 
Pearce. 

1860. — Abraham Lowman, Wm. C. Conard and Philip 
Roush. 

18(31. — Al)raham Lowman, Wm. C. Conard and Thomas 
Robinson. 

1863. — Abraham Lowman, Thomas Robinson and F. I. 
Bumgarner. 

1864. — Abraham Lowman, F. I. Bumgarner and F. M. 
Cox. 

1865.— F. I. Bumgarner, F. M. Cox and H. H. Redkey. 

1867. — F. L ]>unigarner, H. H. Redkey and Benjamin 
Cochran, 

1868. — F. r. Jjinngarner, Jjenjamin Coehian and Samuel 
Russell. 



44 THE HISTORY OF 

1<S71. — F. I. Bumgarner, William Elliott and H. H. 
Red key. 

1872.— F. I. Bumgarner, William Elliott and H. H. 
Redkey. 

1873.— T. H. Long, H. H. Redkey and Davis McCon- 
aughey. 

1874. — T. H. Long, Davis McConaughey and John 
Bogart. 

1876. — The three last named are the present incnmbents. 

Oct., 1876. — Henry H. Redkey elected in place of Davis 
McConaughey. 

County Treasurers. 

1806 'to 1807— John Richards. 
1808 to 1810— George Shinn. 
1810 to 1842— John Smith. 
1842 to 1850— John M. Johnson. 
1850 to 1854— Wm. McReynolds. 
1854 to 1858— David Fenwick. 
1858 to 1862— Jos. J. Woodro^y. 
1862 to 1864— Geo. Lawrence. 
1864 to 1868— James Reece. 
1868 to 1871— J. W. Spargur. ■ 
1871 to 1875— Wm. H. Glenn. 

1876 — Wm. S. Patterson, present incumbent. 

County Recorders. 

By an act of the legislature, of February 25th, 1831, the 
office of county recorder was made elective. Before the 
date of said act, the duties of this office had been perform- 
ed by the clerk of the court of common pleas. 

1836 to 1842— Samuel Bell. 

1842 to 1845— David Miller. 

1845 to 1854— James M. Keys. 

1854 to 1856— John Baskin. 

1856 to 1863— W. C. Winter. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 45 

1863 to 1866— John Baskin. 

1866 to 1869— J. M. Matthews. 

1869 to 1872— Isnia Troth. 
1872 to 1876— Calvin Stroup. 

1876 — George Stephens, present inrunihcnt. 

County Surveyors. 

This office Avas made elective by an xVct of the General 
Assembly of March 3rtl, 1831. Prior to that time, from all 
that can be ascertained, Thos. M. Sanders was holding the 
office of connty surveyor in A. D. 1819, and continued to 
hold the office until 1835, when the following county sur- 
veyors, by election, held the office as follows, to-wit : 

1835 to 1843— Jesse Barrett. 
1843 to 1849— Thomas Berry man. 
1849 to 1855— Thomas Wilson. 
1855 to 1858 — Thomas Berryman. 
1858 to 1861— Thomas M. Boyd. 
1861 to 1864— Wm. J. Boyd. 

1864 — Edward Burnett died, and Wni. J. P)()yd 
appointed to fill vacancy. 

1867 to 1870— Wm. Siders. 

1870 to 1876— Eli Staffi)rd. 

1876 — Wm. J. Boyd, present incumbent. 

Justices of the Peace in Office in 1876. 

Brush Creek Township. — John J. Hiatt, Eden Mc- 
Keehan, J. T. Hiser. 

Clay Tom'NSHIP. — John Bell, Jacob Burns. 

Concord Township. — John Rogers, B. F. PulHam. 

DoDsoN Township. — Wm. Hill, Thomas Peale. 

Hamer Township. — Henry Murphy, Eli Shafer. 

Fairfield Tom'Nship. — David Kinzer, Joseph Fultz, 
Leroy Kelly. 

Jackson Township. — Abram Hurst, T. F. AVebster. 



46 THE HISTORY OF 

I^inKU'rv Township. — Wash Doggett, S. S. Stoddard. 

Madison Township. — R. J. McCoppin, fFohn Eckman, 
A. N. Patton. 

Marshal Township. — John L. Hughes, N. N. Dehi- 
plane. 

New Market Township. — A. T. Cunuingham, H. P. 
Barrere. 

Paint Township.— R. B. McMullin, A. A. Murdoek. 

Penn Township. — Isaac West, T. J. Higgins. 

Salem Township. — Jonathan Foust, C. C. Ridings. 

Union Township. — E. G. Boatright, Amos Smith. 

Washington Township. — Thomas Watts, Jolin Bal- 
lentine. 

White Oak Township. — B. F. Cox, Ah;x. Purdy. 

Justices of the Peace Elected in 1877. 

Concord Township. — John Rogers. 

Fairfield Township. — H. S. Wilson. 

Jackson Township. — W. O. Murphy. 

Marshall Township. — J. L. Hughes, R. L. Watts. 

New Market Township. — John McPeynolds. 

Paint Township. — Harvey Murdoek. 

Town Councilmen, and Officers of Incorporated Villages, 
A. D. 1876. 

HiLLSP.oRO — Josiah Stevenson, mayor; J. M. Hughcy, 
elerk ; Sanuud Lyle, marshal ; Geo. J>. Gardner, Emanuel 
Young, A. S. Glascock, Francis Reed, Wm. P^lliott and 
James F. Doggett, counculmen. 

Lynchbijrc! — John Torrie, mayor; John Q. Thom|)S()n, 
recorder; Perry Whitacre, marshal ; A. J. Ueniston, treas- 
urer; Wm. R. Gaddis, Sylvanus Puckett, Thomas Cashatt, 
A. J. Fields, Daniel Murphy and George Bisher, council- 
men. 

Greenfield — John Eckman, mayor ; .lohn M. Waddell, 



THE COUNTY OF H Hi II LAND. 47 

clerk ; E. H. Miller, treasurer ; D. M. Harris, marshal ; 
A. B. Southward, James M. Murray, E. V. Pierson, M. A. 
Squires, H. C. Macler and E. Dines, couneilmen. 

Leesburg — David Kinzer, mayor ; M. H. Hutl', mar- 
shal ; C. L. Bennett, Wm. F. Holmes, John Griffith, W. 
L. Covan, J. T. Guthrie and Wm. Williamson, couneilmen. 



CHAPTER III. 

MISCKI.LANEOUS— THE BENCH, THE BAR, THE PULPIT, 
AXD THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. 

A LL these professions in the past liave been distingnish- 
ed, and at present are noted for niueh more than or- 
dinary mental ability, and learned skill, integrity, industry 
and fome in their several departments; and as the memories 
of all the departed have been })reserved by their several bi- 
ographies, elsewhere to be found, in the annals of each j)ro- 
fession, nothing more will be done in this sketeh than to re- 
cord the names of the present living members. 

The Bench. 

All the judges of the court of common ])leas who were 
residents of Highland county at the time of their several 
elections, to-wit : the Hon. J. Winston Price, Hon. Alfred 
S. Dickey, and the Hon. James Sloane, have in less than 
ten years past severally departed this life — in the prime of 
manhood, professional skill, and experience ; and as the 
mcMuories of their lives have been carefully preserved by 
the proceedings of the bar of record in said court of couimon 
pleas, nothing more will now be said than to add that no 
county in the state has lost in so short a time as much Ju(b'- 
cial ability as did Highland in the death of these three 
judges. 

The lion. Samuel F. Steel, a native of Tlillsboro, is the 
jiresent incumbent, and is now in the second term of his of- 
fice as judge of the court of common pleas, and has thus far 
achieved a judicial reputation equal to any of his j)redeces- 
sors, and his career leaves no doubt but that he will prove 
a l)rilliant ornament of the bench. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 49 

The Bar of Highland County. A. D. 1876. 

Hu.Lsi'.oKo. — Win. Scott, Nelson Barrere, Wra. O. Col- 
lins, J. J. McDowell, (\ H. Collins, Wni. M. Meek, J. H. 
Thompson, Albert G. Matthews, John A. Smith, ^Y. H. 
Trimble, Geo. B. Gardner, Jacob J. Pugsley, B. V. Pugs- 
ley, Henry A. Shepherd, R. T). Lilley, Jr., H. M. Huggins, 
E. L. Johnson, M. T. Nelson, E. M. DeBruin, Ulric Sloane, 
Kirby Smitii, Henry Rhoades, Jesse K. Pickering, R. T. 
Hough, L. S. Wright, R. M. Ditty, John Hyre, B. F. Bee- 
son, Cyrus Newby, Augustus Harmon, Carlisle Barrere, 
James Dumenil, Sam'l Scott, W. H. Soule, E. E. Holmes, 
Flint Rockhold. 

Greenfield. — Henry L. Dickey, W. H. Irwin, W. H. 
Eckman, H. L. Meek. 

Leesburg. — Ruel Beeson, Rob"t Elwood, (ieorge Hardy, 
H. L. Pavey, L. O. Guthrie, Sam'l Beard. 

Lynchburg. — John Torrie, B. F. Hathaway, Isma 
Troth, H. C. Dawson. 

New Petersburg. — Thomas KUk, E. A. Mosier. 

Belfast.— Thos. H. Baskcn. 

BuFORD. — Cary Matthews. 

Sinking Springs. — H. N. Easton. 
Note. — Joseph J. McDowell, departed this life Jan. 17, 1877. 
Ruel Beeson, departed this life in the year 1877. 
Thomas Ellis, departed this life in the year 1877. 

Di><t'ni(iitished 3Iembei:^ of the Bar from other ( huvfies, who 
prdcficrd (lariiif/ their tires in the Cotnis of Highland. 

Ross CoT^NTY. — Hon. Plenry Brush, William Creighton, 
Sr., Richard Douglass, Joseph Sill, Thomas; Seott, B. G. 
Leonard, W. K. Bond, W. S. Murphy, John L. Taylor, 
Henry Massie, and Edward Kin\2,-. 

Warren County. — Hon. Thos. Rotjs, Thonuis Corwin, 
and Phineas Ross. 
4 



50 THE HISTORY OF 

Clinton County. — Hon. B. Hinkson, R. B. Harlan, 
and Wm. C^ole. 

Fayette County. — Hon. Robert Robinson and Wade 
Lnf borough. 

Brown County. — Hon. Thos. L. Hanier. 

Clermont County. — Hon. Thos. Morris, O. T. Fish- 
hack, and Jolin JollifFe. 

Hon. Richard Collins, ( who was the earliest practitioner 
of the Highland county bar), after his removal from Hills- 
boro to Maysville, Ky., occasionally appeared at this bar, 
where he had achieved during his residence as great fame 
for polished eloquence and accurate learning in his profession, 
as any one of his associates in his day. 

The Churches. 
Presbyterian — 

Hillsboro — Rev. AV. J. McSurely, pastor. 

Greenfield — Rev. Sam'l J). Carothers, pastor 1st church. 
" Rev. G. W. Goudy, pastor '2d church. 

Fallcreek — 

Marshall — J. McDowell, pastor. 

Belfast — J. McDowell, pastor. 

New Market White, pastor. 

Bethel — No supply. 
Christ's Church — 

Mount Olivet — Mr. Sears, pastor. 

Lynchburg — T. M. Pinkcrton, pastor. 

Fairvicw — No pastor. 

Pricetown — John Faris, pastor. 

Buford — -John Shockey, pastor. 

Sugar Tree llidgc — James Barker, pastor. 

Smarts — J. B. Faris, j)astor. 

Rocky Fork — No j)astor. 
All the above named ministers live in Highland county» 
except Mr. Sears, who lives in Clinton county. 



the county of highi>and. 51 

Christian Union — 

Marshall — P. P. Wolfe, pastor, 

Allensburg Shoemaker, pastor. 

Highland County — Benj. Clice, pastor. 

New Market — Shoemaker and Wolfe, pastors. 

Berrvville — Shoemaker and Wolfe, pastors. 

Catholic — 

Hillsboro, Greenfield and Leesburg — Michael ()T)on- 
ahue, parish priest. 
Methodist Episcopal — 

Hillsboro District — Jas. T. Bail, presiding elder. 

Hillsboro Station — Lncien Clark; succeeded l>y Rev. 
Thos. H. Pearne, D. D., the present pastor. 

Greenfield — Wm. I. Fee, pastor. 

New Lexington — G. W. Edgar, pastor. 

Leesburg — David Whitmer and J. C. Ambrose, pastors. 

Sinking Springs — J. R. Hunter, pastor. 

Lynchburg — J. M. Robinson, pastor. 

Buford — S. W. Edminson, pastor. 
Baptist — 

Hillsboro — J. W. Weatherby, pastor. 

Greenfield — Mr. Griswold, pastor. 

New Market — David Trickier, pastor. 

Protestant Episcopal — 

Hillsboro — W. T. Bowen, pastor. 

DUNKERS 

Hickson's meeting-house. 

Cowgill's 

Brush Creek 

African— 

Hillsboro Methodist Episcopal. 
Hillsboro Wesley. 
Hillsboro Baptist. 
Greenfield Methodist Episcopal. 

XJniversalist — 

Leesburg, Centerfield and Pricetown, 



52 the history of 

German Reform — 

Mt. Zion and Danville — Mr. Winter, pastor. 

United Brethren — 

Ambrose and Sonner Chapels. 
Associate Reform — 

Fall Creek. 

I)lst'mg\(ii^hed members of the Pulpit ivho have departed //)/.s 

life, and who, during their lives, officiated in the Pulpit 

of Highland County, and many of u-hoin irere 

residents of the County. 

Methodist Church. — Rev. John Meek, John Collins, 
James Quinn, Greenburv R. Jones, James B. Findley, 
Isaac Quinn, Wm. I. Elsworth, Moses Smith, James Havens, 
George W. Maley, A. M. I.orain, George W. Walker, 
Wm. Simmons, Wm. H. Lauder, Isaac I. Beale, Isaac Eh- 
bert, Joseph M. Gatch, W. M. D. Ryan, Michael Marlay, 
Wm. B. Christie, and Allen T. Thompson. 

Presbyterian Church. — Rev. Nicholas Pittenger, Sam- 
uel Carothers, S. D. Blythe, Samuel Steele, J. W. Eastman, 
and Samuel Hibben. 

Distinguished Memhers of the Pulpit )iou- liriug, and iiafires 
of Highland (hu)di/. 

Rev. Joseph M. Trimble, (jeorge C. Crum, Samuel D. 
Carothers, and Stephen Merrill, now Bishoj) of the Metho- 
dist Church. 

Physicians of Highland County. 

IIiLLSMORo.— R. I). Lillcy, Sr., J. W. M. Quinn, S. J. 
Spees, Enos Holmes, David Noble, I). Callahan, W. W. 
Shepherd, P. H. Wever, W. R. Smith, R. C. Russ, H. S. 
Fullerton, B. F. Holmes, E. L. Reeves, F. M. Metz, Wm. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 53 

Huyt, J. L. Hill, C. Matthews, C. C. Hixson, J. Callahan, 
A. Evans, B. R. Shipp, and W. S. Patterson. 

Grkenfield. — S. F. Newcomer, J. L. Wilson, INlilton 
Dnnlap, W. W. Wilson, J. L. Wilson, Jr., W. F. Galbreth, 
and Frank \\'ilson. 

Leesburg. — M. Holmes, J. L. McGlaughlin, and John 
Holmes. 

New Lexington. — E. Judkins, J. M. Spears, and A. A. 
Pat ton. 

New Petersburg. — W. M. McCollum and R. A. Dwyer. 

Rainsborough. — J. P. Garrett, N. Troth and D. M. Mc- 
Bride. 

New Market. — H. Whistler, N. B. Van Winkle and 
D. M. Barrere. 

Marshall. — J. M. Miller and J. F. Blair. 

Belfast. — A, Rogers. 

North Union. — S. McNnlty. 

Sinking Springs. — C. H. Leighton and T. C. Rogers. 

Lynchburg. — I. Holmes, J. W. Pettijohn, J. R. Ful- 
ion, and T. D. Achor. 

Pricetown. — F. M. Drake. 

BuFORD. — A. S. Bryant, C. E. Lee, and Gaskins. 

Sicily. — John Shocky. 

Boston. — A. W. Devoss. 

Danville. — S. F, Chaney, Silas Chapman, and J. L. 
Vance. 

Moavrytown. — C. Hare. 

Taylorsville. — W. S. Moore. 

Sugar Tree Ridge. — Arthur Noble and A. S. Bunn. 

Fairfax. — C. J. Whitaker. 

Samantha. — F. M. Thomas. 

Russel's Station. — B. D. Granger and F. M. Grander. 



54 THE HISTORY OF 

Disthu/nixJud PIii/sici((it!<, who have departed this life, and 

irlio, dtiriiif/ their lices, were extensively engaged 

in the practice of their profession: 

Dr. JasjKT Hand, Jolin Boyd, Allen H. Faquer, Jacob 
Kirby, Jas. (Conway, John Wood, C. C. Sams, R. P. Judkins, 
Wni. M. McCV)llam, T. H. Davis, Isaac Quinn, W. C. Mc-- 
Bride, M. C. Rnss, John Parke, John M. Johnson, Ziniri 
Hussey, W. W. Holmes, Michael Holmes, N. H. Hickson, 
Geo. W. Dun lap, \A\ W. Hardy, Jeptha Davis, and W. A. 
Shepherd. 

Banks and Bankers. 

First National Bank, Hilksboro — John A. Smith, 
president ; Benjamin Barrere, vice-president ; C. Barrere, 
cashier; John A. Smith, Wm. Scott, Nelson Barrere, L. S. 
Smith and Benjamin Barrere, directors. 

CiTiZENh' National Bank — J. C. Gregg, president ; 
Wm. St'ott, vice-president; C. M. Overman, cashier ; O. S. 
Price, assistant cashier; J. C. Gregg, Wm. Scott, J. J. 
Pugsley, D. Noble, Elias Overman, F. I. Bumgarner and 
John L. West, directors. 

Private Bankers of Hillsboro — Wm. Scott, Anna 
F. Evans & E. L. Paris, Dr. David Noble. 

Greenfield Bank — E. H. Miller, private banker. 

IjEESBUR(i Bank — H P. Johnson, president; M. Red- 
key, cashier; Stephen Hussev & Son, Charles Good & Son, 
E. M. Woodburry, E. P. Johnson, E. A. Lewis and E. Ar- 
thur, directors. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 55 

NAMES OF TOWNS AND VILLAGES. 

DATES OF ORIOIXAL PLATS AND NAMES OF OHKilNAl, I'UOl^KIETOKS. 

New Market, 1797. — H. Massie an*.] J<»,s. Kerr. 

Greenfield, 171)9. — Duncan McArthnr. 

HiLLSBORO, August 28, 1S07. — Benj. ElHcott. 

Leesburg, March, 1814. — James Johnson. 

Monroe, November, 1815. — David Reece. 

MiDDLETOWN, November, 1815. — (now Sinkino- Springs), 
Jacob Hiestand. 

New Lexington, Septenil)er, 1816. — John (V)nner. 

New Petersburg, July, 1817. — Peter Maver. 

New Leesburg, June, 1821. — S. McClure, A. Chalfont 
and C. Lupton. 

MowRY Town, May, 1829.— Sam'l Bell. 

Lynchburg, July, 1830. — iVndrew Smith and Coleman 
Betts. 

Rainsborough, October, 1830. — Geo. Rains. 

Centerfield, August, 1830. — John M. Coombs. 

Belfast, March, 1834. — Jas. Storer and Lancelott Brown. 

Buford, August, 1834. — Rob't Lindsley. 

Danville, April, 1835.— Dan'l P. March. 

Marshal, December, 1837, W. W. Head. 

DoDSONViLLE, April, 1839. — Dan'l Shafer and L. L. Cart- 
right. 

Allensburg, November, 1839. — Rob't Pugh and C. 
Henderson. 

Boston, March, 1840. — Ab'm Pennington and Noah Glas- 
cock. 

Sugar Tree Ridge, May, 1844. — John Bunn. 

Fairview, May, 1845. — Jonah Vanpclt. 

Fairfax, February, 1845. — B. F. Pullium. 

Samantha, July, 1845. — David Kinzer. 

Berryville, October, 1846. — Amos Sargent. 

Taylorsville, November, 1846. — Isaiah Roberts, Jr. 



5(5 THE ttiSTORV OV 

Pricetown, April, 1847. — Elijah and Dan'l Faris, and 

A. Murphy. 
Sicily, June, 1848. — John N, Huggins. 
Fallsville, August, 1848. — J. W. Tiraberlake. 
Union Town, April, 1849. — Obediah Countryman. 
Russell's Station, September, 1853. — A. R. Butler. 



COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS. 
the hillsboeo academy. 

Some time during the year 1828, a number of the 
citizens of Hillsboro and vicinity, who were interested in 
the cause of education, formed themselves into an associa- 
tion under the name of the Hillsboro Academy, for the 
purpose of promoting the education of youth. 

During that year they raised money by subscription, 
and purchased in-lot No. 103, on Main street, now occupied 
by John A. Trimble, on which there stood a two-story 
frame building about 18 by 36 feet in size. 

On the 9th of February of the following year, 1829, 
they received a charter of incorporation from the legisla- 
ture of Ohio, in which the following persons were named 
as corporators, viz: William Keys, Jacob Kirby, Joshua 
Woodrow, Sr., Isaac Telfair, Allen Trimble, Andrew Barry, 
and John M. Nelson. These persons were authorized by 
the act, to serve as trustees of the corporation until the 
time designated for the regular annual election. 

The records of the corporation until February, 1843, 
have been mislaid. It is known, however, that (lovernor 
Allen Trimble was elected jiresidcnt at the first meeting of 
the board of trustees, and that he continued to occupy that 
position without interruption until April, 1854; when he 
was succeeded by Gen. Jos. J. McDowell. Gen. McDowell 
was succeeded in April, 18()(), by Samuel E. Hibbon, who 
still holds that position. Some of the first trustees having 



THE COUNTY OP HIGHLAND. 57 

resigned, and some of them having died a.s early as 1835, 
Col, W. O. Collins was elected a member of the board 
and acted as its efficient secretary for many years ; and Dr. 
Jacob Kirby, Dr. C. C. Sams, Judge Thomas Barry, Judge 
R. D. Lilley, Sr., James M. Trind)Ie, and other prominent 
citizens, were also active members of the board for manv 
years. 

During the years 1827 to 1831, the building on Main 
street was occupied by the Rev. J. McD. Matthews as a 
high school. 

In the autumn of 1838, Jamas A. Nelson opened a 
high school for boys and girls in the academy building, 
assisted in the female department by Miss Ann Kemper of 
Walnut Hills. 

In 1836, the lot was deeded to .John A. Trimble; and 
in 1840 the building was removed to a vacant lot on the 
opposite side of the street, where Mr. Nelson continued to 
carry on the male department of his school during the next 
year. In 1842, the school was removed into the room on 
the corner of High and Beech streets, now the office of the 
Wood row House. 

Through the instrumentality of Governor Trimble the 
first board of trustees purchased at a nominal price two 
large surveys of land — one in the County of Fayette, of 
John Brown — and one in the County of Highland, of Adam 
Hoop, and after the ])ayment of all taxes, and the small 
amount of purchase money, and the quieting of the titles by 
the judgment of the courts, these two surveys of land, un- 
der the economical management of the original trustees and 
their successors, by the cautious sales of the same in lots to 
suit purchasers, furnished a large capital to the corporation. 

Out of the proceeds of the sale of these two surveys 
of land, the trustees j)urchased another lot of land on 
North High street, in Hillsboro, north of the railroad, 
and opposite Col. Collins' residence; and under the man- 
agement and direction of Col. W. O. Collins, erected and 



58 THE HISTORY OF 

completed in 1845, a larg:;e and commodions two-story brick 
edifice, and placed it, for edncational i)nrposes, under the 
exclusive charge and management of Prof. Isaac Sams, who 
most successfully taught a school therein in every grade of 
mathematical, classical and English learning until 1851, 
when he resigned. 

It is here proper to record of Professor Sams that he 
is still living; and, although four score years of age, that 
still he is endowed with all his mental and physical powers 
as if he were of middle age; and moreover the grateful taste 
of the entire public judgment would not pardon the writer 
did he not add that Mr. Saras has nurtured as carefully and 
contributed as generously to the high scholarship, sound 
morality, and chaste religion of the population as any man 
that ever lived among us — in scholarship excelling all. 

Mr. Frederick Fuller succeeded Mr. Sams, and taught 
in the edifice on High street for some portion of the time 
until 1853, when, by a vote of the stockholders, it was 
placed under the charge of the board of education of Hills- 
boro Union Common Schools, who occupied it for common 
school purposes until, 1858, when it was destroyed by fire, 
which at the time was supposed to be caused by accident or 
neglect, but how the fire arose never was determined. 

In 1839, the Rev. Joseph McDowell Matthews pur- 
chased of Robert Jones one acre of land at the intersection 
of the Chillicothe and Marshall Road, wliere thev unite in 
making the eastern terminus of Main street, in Hillsboro, 
with the old Presbyterian church l)uildiug thereon, and in 
that buihling Mr. Matthews commenced a female school 
under the name of the Oakland Female Seminary, and 
with great success (iarried on his school until 1857, when 
he was elected president of the Hillsboro Female College, 
and took charge of that institution. 

In 1847, the trustees of the Hillsboro academy pur- 
chased the old building of Mr. Matthews, in which he was 
teaching, and in 1866 and 1867 the present new edifice 



THE COUNTY OP HIGHLAND. 59 

was erected out of the inonev and capital of the stock- 
hol(U>rs of the HilLsboro academy, in which Miss Emilv 
Grand (iirard conducts her deservedly celebrated female 
school under the namq of the Hio-hland Institute. Miss 
Grand Girard commenced her school in 1857, in the old 
buildiniLj: from which Mr. Matthews removed when he was 
installed as i)resident of the Hillsboro Female CN)lleo:e ; and 
she has ever since her first commencement as a teacher 
progressed with admira])le skill in forwarding-, maintaining 
and expounding as matron and teacher, female education — 
equal, if not superior, to any t)ne of her sex in our State, 
and from which school there has been ushered into active 
life ninety-six graduates, also equal in preparation for the 
discharge of the duties of womanhood to any of their sex. 

During the time Mr. Matthews conducted the Oakland 
Female Seminary there were enrolled in his catalogue one 
hundred graduates, — many of whom are the mothers and 
grand-mothers of a posterity which is in every region of 
our vast country from the front line of human progress, 
and many of whom also to-day in middle age and old age 
are as thev have been with established characters from airl- 
hood, the zealous advocates and brave guardians of every 
high and pure undefiled religious type of womanhood, which 
fixes, defines and gilds the true outlines of all chaste 
society. 

As has been said of Mr. Sams, so must it be said of 
Mr. Matthews — it is apt to stop and record of him that 
for more than forty-five years he has been engaged in 
teaching females; and in founding Oakland Female Semi- 
nary, in 1839, he established the first female school in 
the State of Ohio, in which a thorough collegiate education 
was given to girls. About two hundred graduates have 
diplomas from Mr. Matthews; many bestowed by him as 
charities all well earned, and only given when a scholar had 
attained to the high standard of female education, which had 
been established bv him in his lono- successful career. Mr. 



60 THE HISTORY OP 

Matthews is now more than three score years old, and lives 
retired on account of his very feeble health. 

He had the advantage in early life of the bestowment 
of a thorough classic education by Dr. Lewis Marshall, of 
Kentucky, and was trained for the pulpit as a preacher in 
the M. E. Church, and in this vocation was a shining light, 
until he was compelled to retire on account of his feeble 
health, more particularly on account of his weak voice; but 
notwithstanding these infirmities, through all the days of 
his life he has succeeded in contributing as much to the 
creation of a healthy, accurate, pure and elevated standard 
of learning for woman as any man of his age. 

THE HILLSBORO P'EMALE COLLEGE. 

The Hillsboro Female College was organized and es- 
tablished as a corporation, " for the purpose of promoting 
education, religion and morality among females, and for no 
other purpose," under the knvs of Ohio, by articles of in- 
corporation of the date of May 21, 1855, duly recorded in 
the office of the recorder of Highland county, Ohio, and 
signed by James H. Thompson, Jacob Sayler, John Dill, 
Wm. O.' Collins, J. I. Woodrow, J. R. Emrie, J. H. 
Mullinix, J. McD. Matthews, John Baskin, J. Milton 
Boyd and D. Fen wick, with a cajiital stock of $50,000, 
divided into shares of |25.00, with ten per cent, interest, 
payable aniuially in tuition if demanded, and with fifteen 
trustees, eight of whom are appointed by the Cincinnati 
Conference of the M. E. Church. The (College edifice, 
which together with the grounds and furniture cost about 
$50,000, was finished in_ 1857, and possession of it was 
formally given up to the Rev. Joseph McD, Matthews as 
president of the Collegiate and Literary De])artnients by 
the board of trustees of the corporation — who at that time 
consisted of the following members : 

James H. Thompson, president ; J. M. Boyd, Alex- 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 61 

under Ikmtain, Joseph H. Mullinix, David Feuwick, Ed- 
ward Easton, Henry Turner, John Dill, Wm. M. Meek, 
Joseph McD. Matthews, Jacob Sayler and James J. 
Dry den. 

The above named pei'sons continued to be members of 
the board with the foljowing- changes, viz: T. B. Anderson 
substituted for D. Fenwick, which occurred in 1<S5<S. 

R. P. Judkins elected in place of A. Buntain, de- 
ceased,- 1859; Randolph Richards elected in place of J. 
McD. Matthews, resigned I860.- Nathaniel Rockhold in 
place of James T. Ay res, resigned 1860; Enos Holmes, 
John L. Hughes, George March and H. S. Scarborough, 
appointed by Conference 1861, with James H. Thompson as 
president of the board until September 27, 1865, when the 
board was re-organized by the election of stockholders and 
the appointment of Conference as follows: 

John A. Smith, James Reece, Jacob Sayler, J. Milton 
Boyd, James H. Thompson, E. Holmes, J. K. Marlay, J. 
F. Chalfaut, Charles Ferguson, Wm. Simmons, A. Ma- 
harrey, J. W. Weekly, Wm. Young, Wm. I. Fee and L. F. 
Van Cleve. At the first meeting of this board, John A. 
Smith was chosen president of the board, who has been 
continued in that position with the same members of the 
board of trustees, except the annual changes made by the 
Conference, and is at present president of the board, with 
the following members as re-organized in 1877 : John A. 
Smith, Jacob Sayler, Enos Holmes, James Reece, J. Milton 
Boyd, James H. Thompson, Hardin Rhodes, J. L. West, 
Asa Hains, J. T. Bail, T. H. Pearne, Joseph Heistand, F. I. 
Bumgarner, M. Dustin and A. Maharrey. 

The following have been the presidents of the college 
and literary department : Rev. Joseph McD. Matthews ap- 
pointed in 1857, resigned December 7, 1860; Rev. W. G. 
W. Lewis appointed as his successor, and resigned June 
25, 1861. The interim of time from the resignation of Mr. 
Lewis until August 3, 1863, when the Rev. Henry Turner 



62 THE HISTORY OF 

was appointed president, the college and literary depart- 
ment was under the control and management of Miss 
Jennie Warren, now Mrs. Dustin, and her associate, the Rev. 
Henry Turner, occupied the place of president until June 
21, 1864, when the Rev. Allen T. Thompson was appointed 
president of the college and literary department, in which 
position he continued until December 5, 1865, when he re- 
signed ; Rev. D. Copeland was appointed president as suc- 
cessor of A. T. Tliompson, December, 1865, and 'served 
until August, 1872, when he resigned; and the Rev. 
Joseph McD. Matthews was re-appointed president and 
served until August, 1877, when he resigned; and the Rev. 
J. F. Loyd was appointed president by the board of trus- 
tees in August, 1877, and is now the president of the 
college. 

The graduates from the college since its completion in 
1857 number one hundred and thirty-two, and are from 
twelve states and one territory, but chiefly from Ohio; and 
as their names are preserved in the annual catalogues of 
the institution, they are not republished in this sketch. 

The college edifice has been thoroughly repaired in 
1877, and with an endowment bestowed by the last will of 
Mrs. Drusilla lUintain, late of Plillsboro, amounting to 
eight or ten thousand dollars, its future prospects are 
brighter than they have ever been. 

COLLEGES IN OTHER COUNTIES. 

OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVKSITY. 

OI'KICERS OF TMK HOARD I'RKSI1)K\T!S : 

Allen Trind)le, of Highland, 1842— 1S50. 
Joseph M. Trimble, D. D., Columbus, 1871. 

OHIO AC;RIOtTT.TURAT. C'OT>I.E(iE. 

James M. Trimble, of Hillsboro, O., mend)er of the 
board of trustees, appointed and sworn into office May 11, 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. ()3 

1870, by Gov. Haves; May 11, 1872, re-appointed by Gov. 
Noves for six years, and continued in office as the active 
chairman of the land comniittee until his death, February 
1st, A. D. 1874. 

COMMON SCHOOLS. 

The county from its earliest history has been char- 
acterized for the deep interest taken by all classes of her 
citizens in sustaining the common school system, and in 
conferring the advantages of education in the youth of both 
sexes, which are afforded by such schools, and inasmuch 
as a correct type of the system as substantially practiced 
throughout the county is exemplified in the published 
pamphlet of Mr. Henry S. Doggett, the present able super- 
intendent of the Common Schools of Hillsboro, entitled : 
"A Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Common Schools 
of Hillsboro, Highland County, O.," such sketch, by the 
sanction of Mr. Doggett, is herewith published as appen- 
dix A. 

RAILROADS. 

A detailed history of the finished and unfinished rail- 
roads passing through the county, would not be read with 
interest by any class of persons, and therefore it is sufficient 
to say, that besides the length of the lines of finished rail- 
road of the H. & C. and M. & C, there are in progress 
of construction the S. J. & P. Narrow Gauge Railway, 
which passes through Greenfield, and the C. & M. Narrow 
Gauge Railway, Southern Division, which passes through 
Hillsboro, and that the prospect for the completion of Ijoth 
of these last mentioned railways is not only flattering, but 
in the opinion of their stockholders is assured by the energy 
which inspires the friends of the two projects. 

Officers of the Columbus and Maysville Railway Com- 
pany.— President, C. S. Bell. Directors, C. S. Bell, B. 
Barrere, John H. Jollcy and J. H. Richards, of Hillsboro; 



64 THE HISTORY OF 

John Kibler, of White Oak ; Chambers Baird and A. King, 
of Ripley, O. Treasurer, E. L. Ferris; Secretary, Thomas 
Hibben; Engineer, H. J. Picard; Attorney, Jas. H. Thomp- 
son — all of Hillsboro. 

AGRICULTURE. 

As the cultivation of the soil which is adapted to the 
production of every variety of small grain, corn, tobacco, 
vegetables and fruits known in this latitude, and as the 
breeding and raising of horses, cattle, hogs, mules, sheep 
and poultry of every kind constitute almost tiie predom- 
inant and exclusive occupation of tlie population, it might 
be expected that space would be allowed for its full devel- 
opment, in j)roportion to the magnitude of the subject. 

This expectation is just, but on an examination of the 
agricultural and horticultural statistics published in previous 
pages, and other statements that will hereafter be made in 
the subsequent chapter, it will be admitted that it is suffi- 
cient for the ])resent to say, that the leading interests men- 
tioned have been most industriously promoted by all classes 
of citizens, and the best breeds of horses, cattle and hogs 
have been imported into the county by the more wealthy 
and enterprising farmers, and that to-day in quality and 
variety of blood of beast and fowl, or nutriment of grain, 
or richness of vegetables and fruit, it may be justly record- 
ed that our highlands are ecpial to any other portion of the 
state, of the same dimensions and area. 

From an early day there have existed organized stock 
and agricultural societies, the members and officers of which 
have annually had creditable exhibitions, and at this time 
there exists at (irreenheld such a society composed of citizen 
farmers of Highland, Ross and Fayette Counties, which 
holds annual fairs, attended by thousands of admiring and 
delighted sj)ectators. 

Recently there has been organized at Hillsboro " The 
Highland County Stock and Agricultural Society," which 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 65 

has purchased the old fair i>;rounds and added thereto by 
subsequent purchase so much land that they now have a 
race track one half mile in length; and besides, outside and 
around are ample grounds for exhibition of stock, between 
which and the race track are situated the Floral Hall and 
all other necessary buildings for the accommodation of visit- 
ors and exhibitors, with never-failing wells of water, under- 
neath wide-spreading shade trees of oak and sugar. 

This society has had one very successful exhibition, and 
no doubt in the future will more than realize all the objects 
of its organization, under the management of its present 
efHcient officers, elected in 1877, viz: 

Gary T. Pope, president -, James Clark, vice-president ; 
Col. W. H. Glenn, treasurer ; Rob't R. Waddell, secretary. 
C. T. Pope, L. B. Boyd, T. P. Vance, James Clark, J. C. 
Quinn, Isaac Larkins, Col. W. H. Glenn, R. R. Waddell, 
F. J. Pickard, board of directors. 

NEWSPAPERS. 

THE HII.LSBORO GAZETTE. 

The "Hillsboro Gazette" was founded in the year 1818 
by Moses Carothers. It was among the first county papers 
started in Ohio. In the spring of the year 1818, Carothers 
brought to Hillsboro an outfit for a small printing office. 
He opened out in an old building which stood on the lot 
now occupied by the residence of Mrs. J. M. Trimble. 
Carothers was a good practical printer, and had as assistants 
two young men named Simmons and Bereman. The latter 
was afterwards well known as Judge Bereman, of Wash- 
ington C. H. When Carothers announced his intention of 
publishing a paper in Hillsboro, the enterprise was encour- 
aged by the people of the town and neighboring country. 
Accordingly the first number of the paper was issued in the 
spring of 1818. This was an event of considerable import- 
ance, and an old citizen relates that the windows and doors 
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66 THE HISTORY OF 

of the office were crowded with persons anxious to see the 
operation of printing. The first " Gazette " was a small 
sheet, 10x18, printed on very coarse paper. It contained a 
few advertisements, no local news, and some items of nation- 
al and foreign news a month old. The press used in print- 
ing it was the old Ramage, and was so small that only half 
of one side of the little sheet could be printed at one im- 
pression. The ink was applied to the forms with small hand 
ink balls. The paper when printed was delivered to sub- 
scribers in town and country by carriers. 

Moses Carothers was a man of very considerable ability, 
and carried on the paper for about ten years after ho com- 
menced its publication. Since that time the " Gazette " has 
had many editors and proprietors, as will be seen by the list 
given at the close of this notice. Amid all these changes 
of proprietorship it has steadily grown in influence and pop- 
ularity, and to-day has a larger subscription list than at any 
previous period in its history. It may be mentioned that 
in 1852 the "Gazette" was for a short time published by 
J. R. Emrie, as a daily. During the remainder of the time 
it has been published as a weekly. 

PUBLISHERS OF THE GAZETTE. 

Moses Carothers— 1818 to 1828. 

Wm. H. Allen— 1828 to 1830. 

Wm. Keys- 1830 to 1832. 

Moses & Jacob Kirbv— 1832 to 1835. 

Jacob Kirby & Hirain Campbell— 1835 to 1839. 

J. R. Emrie <& Benj. (lumev— 1839 to 1841. 

W. H. C^ippe— 1841. 

J. R. Emrie— 1841 to 1848. 

AVm. H. IMorrow- 1848. 

Robt. R. Stevenson— 1848 to 1854. 

J. R. Emrie— 1854 to 1856. 

John G. Doren— 1856 to 1857. 

Jjogan & Seaman — 1857 to I860. 

H.'S. Doggett- 1860 to 1862. 

Sam. Pike— 1862 to 18()3. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 67 

Wm. H. Munnell— 1863 to 1865. 
Sam. Pike— 1865 to 1867. 
Malay & Marshall— 1867 to 1869. 
Marshall & Feagles— 1869 to 1872. 
J. C. Springer & Co.— 1872 to 1876. 
J. R. Marshall — present proprietor. 

HIGHLAND WEEKLY NEWS. 

The publication of "The Ohio News," a Whig weekly 
newspaper — subsequently changed to the Highland News — 
was commenced in Hillsboro, Ohio, April 21st, 1837, by 
James Brown, and was continued by him for nearly fifteen 
years, with the exception of one year, during which he leased 
the office to A. P. Russell, Esq. On the 1st of January, 
1852, he sold the establishment to the Messrs. J. L. Board- 
man and J. C. D. Hanna, who conducted it for one year. 
Mr. Hanna then sold his interest to his partner, who has 
since been the sole publisher and proprietor. In 1854, upon 
the organization of the Republican party, the paper sup- 
ported its platform and candidates, and has ever since adhered 
to that party. On the 1st of January, 1878, Mr. E. L. 
Boardman, son of the senior editor, became associated in the 
management of the paper as local editor. The circulation 
of the paper has increased with the population and business 
of the town and county, until it has now a regular weekly 
issue of 1450 copies. The sheet has also been considerably 
enlarged and improved, and now is printed on a cylinder 
press. 

THE HIGHLAND CHIEF, 

At Greenfield, founded in 1865, is now owned and edited 
by R. R. Sprung, and is a newspaper of extensive and use- 
ful circulation in that part of this county, and also in the 
north-west part of Ross county; and in print and size of 
sheet, and in correct and manly editorials, is equal to any 
local paper in the southern part of Ohio. 



CHAPTER IV. 

SUMMARY. 

A T the organization of the county in 1805, according to 
the best estimate that can be made from the memories 
of our oldest inhabitants, there were not two thousand acres 
of cleared and tillable land in its boundaries, and all the 
remaining area was densely timbered swamp and rolling land 
of every variety and extraordinary growth of forest trees, 
( including chestnut and hackberry, sycamore, gum, elm, 
hickory and walnut, beech, and every variety of oak, 
papaw, buckeye, wild cherry and wild cucumber ;* with all 
kinds of undergrowth, including dogwood, blackhaw, sassa- 
fras, redbud, crab apple, plum and persimmon, with tangled 
grape vines), which are known in the Virginia Military 
District. Now, just after the lapse of three score years and 
ten, when we l)ehold the colleges, churches, school houses, 
and other public improvements, the farms, orchards, private 
dwellings, etc., which have been exhibited in the two pre- 
ceding chapters as existing on the ground which was covered 
bv this dense forest, and instead of the fierce Shawnee, 
Wyandot and Miami Indians roaming over the county as 
their common hunting ground, and also remember the 
civilized population of thirty thousand or more souls now 
inhabiting the county, — we can but stop and in admiring ex- 
ultation exclaim, what an outburst of human energy and in- 
dustry is displayed on the territorial surface of our county. 
The surface is characterized in the first place by as many, if 

'Note. — South of Newmarket, on the Kipley turnpike, there are 
two wilil cucumber trees, which resemble a ji;um tree in wood and 
leaf, and ])roduce wild cucumbers, which are of the shape and size of 
the pickle cucumber of the ;j;arden, and in olden times was put into 
whisky in order to make iieulthy tonic bitters. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 69 

not more, abuiulant and never failing streams of water, fnll 
of yellow bass and other fish, than any other connty in the 
state. 

On the east, this connty is bounded by main Paint 
creek, into which flows the main Rocky Fork, at the iron 
bridge of the M. and C. turnpike, about fourteen miles 
east of Hillsboro, and into which last stream flows -Punch- 
•eon, New Churn creek, Franklin's branch, and about nine 
miles from its mouth Clear creek, which has its source in 
Penn townshij), and flows through that township over the 
falls at Fallsville; and thence through Liberty township — 
then above the mouth of Clear creek, flows into Rocky 
Fork, on the south side, Carlisle's branch, and then two 
miles above the mouth of that branch, the little Rocky 
Fork and main Rocky Fork flow together — the branches of 
which two streams head in New Market and Union town- 
ships, and the main Rocky Fork flows through Liberty 
township, south of Hillsboro about two miles. There also 
flows into main Paint creek from the west, about four miles 
above the mouth of the Rocky Fork, Rattlesnake creek, 
and into which flows Fall creek, Harden's creek. Walnut 
creek and Lee's creek, which latter as well as Rattlesnake, 
which tumbles over the falls at East Monroe, about forty 
feet in height, have their sources in Fayette county, and 
flow through the townships of Fairfield, Madison, Penn 
and Paint, which are supplied with never-failing water by 
these several streams according to their flow in each. 

On the west flow\s the east fork of the Little Miami, 
and is in part the boundary of Dodson township, and flows 
through that township, and into which near Lynchburg flows 
Turtle creek, which rises in Union township with some small 
branches from New Market, and also into which flows, four 
miles below Lynchburg, Dodson creek, which rises in New 
Market towhship. Also, in the south-west the north fork 
of Whiteoak rises in Dodson, and flows through j)art of that 
township and Clay township ; and in the south, near New 



70 THE HISTORY OF 

Market, the east fork of Whiteoak rises and flows through 
that township and Whiteoak township, and the two forks 
nnite near Sardinia. 

In the south-east, the main fork of Ohio Brush creek 
flows through Brush creek township about nine miles, and 
into Avhich flows the middle fork of Brush creek, w^hich rises 
in New Market and Concord townships, and flows through 
Washington and Jackson townships. 

If any person will take a half leaf of a sycamore tree 
to represent Paint and its sources, and a half leaf of a sugar 
tree to represent Brush creek and its sources, and a half 
leaf of an oak to represent Whiteoai^ and its sources, a half 
leaf of a shell bark hickory to represent the East Fork 
and its sources, and a leaf of a mulberry tree to represent 
the Rocky Fork and its sources, and place them all on a 
white sheet of paper with the half of each leaf directed 
towards Hillsboro, and the mulberry leaf as a center, then 
the stems of each half leaf with its fibers will make a very 
correct picture of the streams and their sources as they 
actually exist on the surface of the country. Although the 
average altitude of the county is more than six hundred feet 
above the Ohio Valley, yet all the streams above mentioned 
are constantly supplied by more than five thousand never- 
failing limestone springs, which burst out between the honey 
comb rock on hill and valley. There are several sulphur 
springs in the county, the largest just above Lynehburgh, 
which gurgles up through sand; one south of Hillsboro on 
the Rocky Fork, three in Marshall township, and several 
in Brush creek township ; and one of the most remarkable 
is what is called Sinking Springs, which bursts uj) with a 
large volume of water in the town of Sinking Springs — runs 
a few yards and then sinks into the caverns of the earth; and 
also there must be mentioned in this connection the springs 
at the caves on the Rocky Fork, twelve miles east of Hills- 
boro, which springs and caves are much resorted to by the 
curious and those who are fond of subterraneous explorations. 



THK COUNTY OF II I(J JI LA N J). 71 

Oil all the streams mentioned there are black fertile 
bottom lands, of varied dimensions, which ex])and into 
j!;radiial high rolling lands and hill-tops, which constitute 
nine-tenths of the farms, on which are produced every 
variety of grass, grain, and fruit; and it will not detract 
from the general fertility of other parts of the county to 
say that the most extensive body of fertile lands is on Fall 
creek and is sources. 

On the sources of these streams, and on the surveyed 
routes of the old limestone road from Maysville, passing 
through West Union, Sinking Springs, Chillicothe to Zanes- 
ville; on the route of the old Anderson state road, from 
C^hillicothe, passing Avest through Highland, north of Hills- 
boro, three miles to Cincinnati, and on the old College town- 
shi]) state road from Athens through Chillicothe, Greenfield, 
Leesburg, Lexington, to Oxford in Butler county, Ohio, all 
of which roads were surveyed and established long before 
the organization of the county of Highland, and all in 
the last century, the earliest settlements were made in and 
around New Market and Greenfield, as early as 1802-3, 
and on Clear creek about 1804-5, and on some of the oth- 
er streams near these dates ; but upon inquiry it is found 
impossible to ascertain and classify the early settlement by 
family names or dates of settlement in any such order as 
would be at all certain or satisfactory, and therefore such 
dates must be left out of this general sketch, for want of 
that information, which has been solicited but not furnisii- 
ed. It would be inferable from the number of springs 
mentioned that the topography of the county is undulating, 
which is true, excejit that the south-western part on the 
waters of Whiteoak creek is swamp land. This swanij) 
land in latter years having been cleared out and ditched, 
is likely to become the most fertile part of the county. 

From the roof of the Female college at Hillsboro, in 
the distance for fourteen miles, can be seen the mountains 
of Brush creek, and noted among them can be seen Bell's 



72 THE HISTORY OF 

hill, or "Slate hill," or "Ball knob" (as variously called), 
which is noted and described in the geological survey of 
Professors Locke and Orton. 

Intermediate all over the surface of three hundred 
square miles of land bounded by the horizon, can been seen 
by the glass, farms, orchards, barns, brick and frame dwell- 
ings, near the never-failing springs which cool the milk for 
man and slakes the thirst of beast. 

The county is subdivided into small farms, and in no 
county are there more freeholders in proportion to the popu- 
lation than in Highland; and they may be truly character- 
ized as a very industrious, economical and honest class of 
husband-men ; and their wives, as housekeepers, are noted 
for their chaste and cultivated attention to all the wants of 
the household, and for their assistance to their husbands 
in the frugal management and marketing of all surplus, 
which is afforded by the industry of Avoman. 

The national bloods of the inhabitants will be found 
to be accurately described in the address of the author de- 
livered on the 4th of July, and herewith printed, and he 
will only add to that description, that in the township of 
Whiteoak there is a French settlement or colony which is 
isolated, and observes and nurtures French tastes and habits. 
Moreover, it may be truly said that the people of the 
county are not a very homogeneous or convenient popula- 
tion — easily moulded by any class of opinions, but on tlie 
contrary there is as much individual independent order of 
man and woman, each of his or her own opinion, as is con- 
ducive to the healthful progress of society. 

In all the political party contests and elections for 
the last forty years, the county may be truly re])resented as 
poised on an equilibrium — wiiich has never IxK'n nuicli dis- 
turbed — frecjuently electing county officers of both parties 
by majorities in many instances of not a dozen votes, and 
in that time the parties have been nearly equally balanced 
in the state representation by alternate success. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 73 

Divided in religious opinions, and yet tolerant as to the 
faith and professions of each church — the Catholic and Pro- 
testant meet in the daily ^valks of life \yithout any ques- 
tion as to the religious faith of the citizen, Avhilst tlie quiet 
pure Quaker faith in an important part of the county pre- 
dominates and shapes the manners of the people, yet in all 
other parts every Protestant profession is exercised ^yithout 
comment, and the existence of the Catholic church, where 
members are indiscriminately mingled \vith all the families, 
is never spoken or thought of, other than as an American 
right, equal in purity to all other rights and religious faith. 

Although the people are of the blood which has been 
described, nevertheless as a large majority of the inhabitants 
emigrated from Virginia, and some from west Pennsylva- 
nia, the manners of the population are southern, and many 
chaste southern tastes and gallant ideas predominate, soften- 
ed and curbed, however, by the quiet and care-taking habits 
of the Pennsylvania Germans. 

There are in the county four incorporated villages and 
twenty-seven towns, and as the description and history of 
each of them would make this sketch too voluminous, the 
origin of each is found elsewhere; and it must, therefore, 
suffice to say of Greenfield and Hillsboro, the county seat 
of justice — 1st, A pamphlet entitled " Centennial Histor- 
ical Sketches of Greenfield and its Vicinity, to July 4th, 
1876, by W. H. Irwin and S. D. Carothers," has been pul)- 
lished and extensively circulated, and reference is here made 
to the excellent matter of the pamphlet set forth in ])lain 
language as a full history of that part of the county, so far 
as the same is represented. 

Greenfield was laid out by Duncan McArtliur, in 1799, 
and is situated on the western shore of main Paint creek', 
and rises from the creek by gradual ascent to a plain; on 
which is located the larger part of the chaste and beautiful 
public ^edifices and private residences of an inland village, 
than which there is none in Ohio of better historic, religious 



74 TPIE HISTORY OF 

and educational aspirations and fame, and Avhose population 
in wealth, enterprise, intelligence and all the graces of social 
life can not be excelled. 

In addition to the published matter contained in the 
pamphlet referred to, — it must be added to the history of 
Greenfield, that in 1877, the Murphy Temperance Reforma- 
tion in this county was first inaugurated by her citizens. 
This reformation thus inaugurated at Greenfield, was after- 
wards in May, 1877, extended to and zealously adopted at 
Hillsboro, and from these two villages have extended 
throughout the county, and at this time there are in the 
county over eleven thousand men, women and children who 
have signed the pledge, and the cause of temperance has 
been thereby strengthened and expanded far beyond the 
impulse of any previous movement. 



tW'l -^1 " WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE, AND CHARITY FOR ALL." (s'|^ 

I ^^ — ^^ 

I, the undersigned, do pledge my word and honor, 

to abstain from ALL Intoxicating Liquors as a beverage, and 
that I will, by all honorable means, encourage others to abstain. 






The foregoing j)rinted card is signed by each member, 
and a blue ribbon is attached to the clothes of each person 



THE COUNTY OF HICIILAND. 75 

on the front left l)re;ist as a badge, and no other pU-dge is 
asked. Up to this time not ten per cent, of the signers 
abandoned the pledge, and the nniversal publie eonvietion 
is, that by the eifect of the Murphy movement and the Wo- 
men's Christian Temperance Union, springing out of the 
women's crusade, (hereafter to be described) the cause of 
total abstinence from the use of intoxicating liquors as a 
beverage, has become a stable tenet of living faith in Ameri- 
can morality and religion. 

Hillsboro, the county seat of justice, was surveyed and 
laid out and the original town plat was recorded on the "iSth 
day of August, A. I). 1S07. Since that time various ad- 
ditions have been made to the original town [)lat, corres- 
ponding in the main, in the breadth of streets, alleys and 
the area of lots to the original plat. 

The village has always been noted for its interest in 
the encouragement of all systems of education, and no 
population has excelled that of Hillsboro in the promotion 
of female education ; the result of which has been to estab- 
lish a high standard of refinement of both sexes, and an un- 
usual independent order of thought and action between 
them, as is evidenced by the tact that the women's t('m[)er- 
ance crusade had its birth in the village, and has already 
breathed its infant breath throughout Christendom. Books 
have been written, voluminous reports have been made, 
and elegant speeches have been uttered as to the minute de- 
tails of the origin of the woman's temperance crusade in 
Hillsboro, and most of them /are true in statement and in 
fact; but no where has pen ventured a description of the 
band— the cohort, the troupe. No! rather the apparition of 
seventy women in sable black arrayed, and in settled line 
of march, moving as when first seen on the streets of Hills- 
boro. 

It was a dark, cloudy, cold and still December day, no 
sun shining from above, no wind playing around, a little 
snow leisurely dropping down, and under the magic com- 



76 THE HISTORY OF 

mand of their own leaders chosen on the instant at the 
hurried previous organization at the Presbyterian church, 
the procession moved with solemn steps as if each woman 
had been trained for that day's work from the cradle. 
"Not a drum was lieard, not a funeral note," 

and the poetic mind instantly hummed the ode of Charles 
Wolfe at the burial of Sir John Moore. Husbands saw 
their wives, sons and daughters, their mothers, and neigh- 
bors, their friends, moving along with the strange appari- 
tion, and knew not what it meant, until before some liquor 
saloon, or hotel, or drug store, you would hear the singing 
of some familiar hymn warble through the air in tones of 
the most touching note, and then solemn silence prevailing 
up and down street, the utterance of a soul stiring prayer 
made by some sister, with all others kneeling around on 
curb stone, or pavement, or door sill, could be heard as- 
cending to the Throne of God to avert the curse of intem- 
perance. 

No crowd of shouting boys followed, no cliques of 
consulting men on the street corners were gathered, every 
countryman halted his team in awe, no vociferous angry 
words were heard, and no officer commanded the peace — 
for it was death-like peace. Throughout the day, songs and 
prayers were heard at all places kept for the sale of liquors, 
and at night consultation was resumed at the church, from 
whence the "Phoenix-like body," springing from the ashes 
of the "funeral pyre" of woman's immolation, had emerg- 
ed in the morning, and there in making reports, prayer and 
singing in spirit as neve.r before was sung on Christmas Eve. 

" Ivinjr out the «j;rief that sa))s tlie mind, 
For tliose tliat here we see no more; 
Ring out the feud of ricii and poor, 
liwVfi in redress to all mankind." 

They remained until the moon in the last quarter light- 
ed their pathway to homes, whose inmates as spectators of 
the troupe when the first curtain was raised, stood around 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 77 

the lieartli-stones in as iimch wonder as if a company of ce- 
lestial beings had on that day come down from the skies. 

Such is a dim outline of the first parade of the Women's 
Temperance Crusade at Hillsboro, and well may it be said of 
the "opening of the heavens" on that memoral)le day, that 
" He who made a decree for the rain and a way for the light- 
ning,'' will alone limit its effects on the nations of the earth. 

BAND OF CRUSADERS. 

The following are the names of the ladies published in 
"The Highland County News" in January, A. D. 1874, who 
constituted the band at that time ; and among the names 
are the seventy who first marched on the 24tli of Decem- 
ber, A. D. 1873. 

At the first meeting, Mrs. Eliza J. Thompson was unan- 
imously chosen president; Mrs. J. J. McDowell, vice-presi- 
dent; and Mrs. D. K. Fenner, secretary — all of Hillsboro. 

NAMES. 

A. Mrs. S. Anderson, R. R. Allen, Jas. Anderson, Sam'l 
Amen, C. Ayers, N. P. Ayers. 

B. Mrs. A. Bennett, J. M. Boyd, J. Brown, J. J. Brown, 
C. Brown, J. Bowles, Lizzie Brown, Wm. Barry, C. S. 
Bell, J. L. Boardman, C. Buckner, Theodore Brown, 
J. S. Black, W. P. Bernard, Thos. Barry, G. B. Beech- 
er, F. I. Bumgarner, Benj. Barrere, Mary Brown, Ju- 
lia Bentley, M. Bruce, J. Barrere, Mary E. Bowers. 

C. Mrs. F. E. Chaney, Benj. Conard, Ella Conard, T. S. 
Cowden, S. D. Clayton, S. W. Creed, Allen Cooper, 
C. H. Collins, W. 6. Collins, Col. Cook, Dr. Callahan. 

J). Mrs. L. Detwiler, W. Doggett, H. S. Doggett, Jas.W. 
Doggett, J. Doggett, E. Dill, Lavinia Dill. 

:E, Mrs. Evans, R. F. Evans, J. H. Ely, Ellafritz, Mrs. 
Doctor Ellis, S. A. Eckly. 

F, B. Foraker, Mrs. E. L. Ferris, M. Frost, Wm. Fergu- 
son, D. K. Fenner, N. Foraker. 



78 THE HISTORY OP 

G. E. L. Grancl Girard, Geo. Glascock, J. Glascock, Hen- 
ry Glascock, R. Griffith, N. B. Gardner, Mrs. Grayham, 
Mrs. Col. Glenn, J. C. Gregg. 

H, Mrs. Doctor Holmes, Jas. Hogshead, Jno. Hogshead, 
Asa Haynes, T. G. Hoggard, Paul Harsha, Wm. 
Hoyt, A. S. Hinton. 

J. Mrs. J. Jones, L. Jones, Doctor Johnson, F. B. Jeans, 
J. W. Jolly, O. Jones. 

K, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Doctor Kirby, Frank Kibber. 

L. S. Lyle, R. A. Linn, J. Langley. 

31, Mrs. Thos. Miller, J. Manning, Mrs. Mather, Mrs. 
Dr. Matthews, Judge Meek, C. B. Miller, C. Miller, 
E. McFadden, Lewis McKibben, W. J. McSurely, J. 
McClure. 

N. Mrs. J. C. Norton, M. T. Nelson, J. F. Nelson. 

O. Chas. O'Harra. 

P. Mrs. J. W. Patterson, S. S. Pangburn, Q. T. Pope, 
J. K. Pickering, T. H. Parker, M. Perkins. 

H. Geo. Richards, Doctor Russ, J. C. Rittenhouse, Joseph 
Richards, Jas. Recce, Thomas Rodgers. 

S. Mrs. Eli Stafford, Doctor Smith, Doctor Sams, Hugh 
Swcaringen, Dr. W. W. Shepherd, John A. Smith, Ma- 
ry Sini])s<)n, ]\L"s. Strain, H. A. Stout, Miss Maria 
Stewart, Mrs. Dr. Speese, J. B. Shinn, E. G. Smith, 
Wm. Scott, Mrs. Shipp, Jacob Sayler, F. Shej)herd. 

T. Mrs. Col. Wm. H. Trimble, Eliza J. Thompson, Sarah 
Tucker, Anna Tucker. 

V, Mrs. Vauwinkle. 

W. Mrs. Chas. Wilson, John L. West. 

Z. Mrs. George Zink. 

The village has contributed freely to the erection of all 
churches of christian denominations, and now has ample ac- 
commodations for all church going people; and its colleges 
and district school house, and that of the colored })opulatiou 
also alford cipial educational accommodations for all pupils 



THE COUNTY OP HIGHLAND, 79 

of all ages and both sexes, — irrespective of the religious ten- 
ets of the parents. 

No jieople of any part of the state, in proportion to 
population, have cultivated more correct taste for sacred 
and all other kind of music than the general circles of 
society of Hillsboro, none who aflbrd in church, or parlor, 
or hall, or street, or in field dis])lay, by choir or by band, 
better strains of music apt for the timB and occasion than 
are heard by any audience on demand. There arc several 
bands in various parts of the county, but as the one at 
Hillsboro, called the loth llegimental liand, of the Oiiio 
National Guards, is regarded as equal to many of the best 
in the state, it is just that the names of the meml)ers of it 
sliould be recorded. 

The Hillsboro Cornet ]>and was organized in March, 
1873, under the leadership of Clark I^ytle, and remained the 
Hillsboro cornet band until may, 1878, when it became the 
13th Regimental Band of the Ohio National Guards. Its 
present officers are Major Wm. Matthews, S. E. Ellis, leader 
and director. The members are S. E. Ellis, Nat. DeBruin, 
Sol. Frankle, Albert Matthews, Scott Holmes, II. E. Har- 
wood, James F. Doggett, Charles W. Woodr(jw, Walter 
Ayers, Charles Hutton, Charles Wilis, Wm. Wilis, Jolin 
Doggett, Wm. Harmon, E. T. Nelson, Edward Doggett, 
Geo. Raines, Charles Lilley, Edward Meek. 

Hillsboro has not been characterized by much liberality 
on the part of capital towards the building up of manufac- 
tories, and hence, although all manufactories existing are 
excellent in their several departments of trade, the controll- 
ing interests of the village are not absorbed or controlled 
by manufactories. The capitalists have been and are safe- 
keepers of money, her merchants have been and are safe bus- 
iness men and solvent, her mechanics well skilled and indus- 
trious. And her hotel-keepers have been and are hospit- 
al)le and afford all needed accommodations to their guest. 
At this time, December 1st, 187(3, there is much excite- 



80 THE HISTORY OF 

ment and much apprehension on the part of some citizens, 
that on account of the near equal count in the college of 
electors as to the choice of the next President, and the ir- 
regularities charged to exist in certain states, that the deter- 
mination of the presidential election in the count of votes 
miglit result in civil war. 

Such fears should all be thrown to the wind ! Our sys- 
tem of government is so well balanced in all its co-ordin- 
ate powers and functions, that it will honestly execute and 
carry out the will of a majority of the people in such man- 
ner as the constitution has prescribed for the ascertainment 
of that will in this emergency, and the writer can only say, 
that his hope — aye, his belief is, that one hundred years 
from this time the same constitution in all its essential pro- 
visions will spread its benign influence over more, much 
more than one hundred millions of free people, and that 
each department of power under that constitution will 
move in its proper orbit and that as in the celestial system, 
the sun shines through day, the moon lights the darkness of 
night, and tlie stars keep their courses all created for man 
and never clash, just so will our Government, the breath of 
freedom from God to man at early morn, evening twilight 
through noon day and midnight, without any disturbance 
from the fiery comet of war throw around the persons of a 
nation of freeman for their protection and the enjoyment of 
"life, liberty and pursuit of happiness,'"' the mantle of silent, 
omnipresent, settled constitutional law. 



Tlie Centennial Fourth 

TJSr HILLSBORO. 



r/ie "Model Town' in a Blaze of Glory — Flags, Banners, Arches, 

Mottoes, and other Decorations — Procession, Oration, Music, 

Fireworks, etc. — Fine Display by the Fire Department — 

A Feast of Patriotism — 20,000 People Celebrate 

the Nation's Birthday — The Bells Ring out a 

Welcome — The Cannon Roars a Response. 

"HAIL COLUMBIA, HAPPY LiiND." 



The Fourth of July — the day of the centennial celebration of our 
independence as free and independent states — was ushered in at 
Hillsboro by the ringing of bells and firing a national salute at sun- 
rise. Thirteen guns were fired in honor of the original thirteen con- 
federated states of America, and all the bells of the town were 
rung for a period of fifteen minutes. The scene at this early hour 
of the morning was quite animated, indeed. Our town was decked 
out in grand holiday attire— the fine, large national flag over the 
court house, and the thousands of lesser ones on every building, 
fluttering in the breeze, in connection with the flying banners, the 
joyous shouts and greetings of the people who at that early hour 
thronged the streets, showing that the fire of oui- Revolutionary 
sires had not been quenched, but burned with patriotic ardor — all 
this, with the recollections of the glorious past, when liberty was 
proclaimed to the world by the incidents of Independence Hall 
and the signers of the Declaration of Independence, stirred the 
hearts of our people, and its events will long live in their i-emem- 
6 



82 THE HISTORY OF 

brances as the first grand centennial day of our glorious country. 

At an early hour the people from the country came pouring in- 
to our streets on horseback, in buggies, carriages and wagons in 
such numbers that the idea of getting them into one grand pro- 
cession was abandoned. By six o'clock numerous applications for 
entrance were made at the. Fair grounds, and shortly afterwards 
the gates were thrown open to accommodate the thousands seeking 
ac^mittance. By eight o'clock our streets were thronged with con- 
veyances and people, so that, as we have remarked, the marshals 
saw it would be impossible to get the immense crowds into one 
grand procession;, consequently the numerous cavalcades were 
urged to go direct to the Fair grounds, and the procession was af- 
terward made up of the civic societies, the military, bands, &c. 

The committee on decorations was very successful. In response 
to its request our citizens all decorated their residences and places 
of business, and we deem it justice to say that we never saw a 
town that presented so grand and beautiful an appearance as our 
town did on the occasion of our first centennial celebration. The 
two princi])al streets were spanned by two mammoth streamers 
each, on the north, south, east and west sides of which was in- 
scribed " Hillsboro Welcomes her Friends." On the reverse sides 
respectively were these mottoes; "This Day Hallowed to the 
Cause of Freedom," " Let this Day be Celebrated Forevermore," 
" The Fourth of July rang the Death-Knell of Despotism," "This 
Day Makes the Dividing Line between Tyranny and Freedom." 
Over the entrance to the Fair grounds was a fine evergreen arch 
decorated with flags, on which was inscribed this motto: " First 
in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Country- 
men." Over the speaker's stand, with many beautiful decorations 
and flags, Avas this motto: "Keep the Memory of Independence 
Day Green Forever." 

By the hour of nine o'clock the largest portion of the vast 
crowd had arrived in town and at the Fair grounds. 

At the hour of half-past nine chief-marshal Wm. H. Glenn, 
with his assistants, C. T. Pope, Wm. C. Newell and John B. 
Hays, commenced the arduous task of forming the procession on 
the public square. After great labor they succeeded in getting 
the procession in line, which was one of the really fine features of 
the day. The order Avas as fi)llows : 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 83 

1, Hillsboro Baud ; 2, carriage with orator of the day, historian, 
president of executive committee, seci-etary and mayor ; 3, Liber- 
ty Guards ; 4, Artillery ; 5, A. O. U. W.— Jas. M. Dumenil, 
marshal ; 6, carriage with president of the day, chaplain and 
reader; 7, Continentals, Brother Jonathan and carriages; 8, Lees- 
burg Band ; 9, Grangers — two divisions, Cynthiana Band in the 
centre — Dr. Holmes, marshal; 10, Mowrytown Band; 11, I. O. 
O. F. — Geo. B. Gardner, marshal; 12, Colored Band: 13, Col- 
ored Continentals ; 14, Log Cabin, Home of '76 ; 15, Chime of 
bells and mottoes ; IB, martial music — Hamer Tp.; decorated 
wagon with Sunday-school children, and a large concourse of pe- 
destrians. 

The line of march was as follows : north on High to Beech ; 
east on Beach to East; south on East to Walnut; west on Walnut 
to High ; north on High to ^lain ; west on Main to West ; north 
on West to John, and west on John to the Fair grounds. 

After the head of the procession had reached the sjieaker's stand 
its rear was on Main street at the corner of High — about a mile 
and a half in length — and contained from two to three thousand 
persons. At all the street corners and throughout its entire length 
it was viewed by great throngs of people with much apparent sat- 
isfaction. The procession was a fine one, and contained many 
pleasuig features. Prominent among these was the fine military 
display of the Continentals; of Brother Jonathan ; of the Libei'ty 
Guards ; the Highland organ display; the grangers ; the odd fel- 
lows ; the Log Cabin, Home of '76 ; the martial music; decorated 
wagon with twenty or thirty sunday-school children ; and last, 
but not least, the chime of bells. 

Mr. C. S. Bell, the well-known, enterprising and public-spirited 
proprietor of the Hillsboro Foundry, had one of the finest displays 
in the j)rocession, in the shape of a wagon enclosed on the sides 
and ends with white muslin, on each side of which was painted a 
handsome facsimile representation of the old liberty bell in Inde- 
pendence Hall, Philadelphia, with the motto, "Proclaim Liberty 
throughout the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof." Inside 
the wagon were hanging eight gilt bells of difl^'erent tones, so ar- 
ranged as to form an octave in music, and by an ingenious arrange- 
ment of keys the l)ells were played upon and produced very good 
music as the procession moved along. Master Ed. Meek was the 



84 THE HISTORY OF 

performer on this novel musical instrument, and played "The Last 
Rose of Summer," "America," " Home, Sweet Home," and other 
well-known and patriotic tunes. 

Another attractive feature of the precession was a miniature log- 
cabin, al)out five cr six feet square, mounted on a ])latform wagon 
and drawn hy two horses. It was the handiwork of Mr. C. B. 
Moore, and was a representation of the real log-cabin homes of 
the early pioneers, even to the old-fashioned Avell-sweep and gourd, 
the coon-skin stretched upon the side to dry, the leather latch- 
string of the door, the wood-sled in the yard, &c. To make the 
representation more complete, the yard was covered with real soil, 
stumps of felled trees, and surrounded with a rail fence. On one 
side of the wagon was the motto, "Sweet home one hundred years 
ago;" on the other " Ye homes of '76." On the rear end were the 
dates "177(3" and "1876," with a picture of clasping hands be- 
tween them. 

The patrons of husbandry made another novel feature in the 
fact that this was the only civic society that had women in the 
procession as members. In front of this society was a beautiful 
American flag made of the best English bunting, borne by Mr. 
Isaac Lemon ; and to its left w'as a very handsome banner tasteful- 
ly decorated with red, white and blue, carried by Mr. James Orr, 
with the inscription, " Hillsboro Grange, No. 145," on one side, 
and on the other, " Faith, Hope and Charity" — the latter symbol- 
istic of "Faith in God, Hope in Immortality, and Charity for all 
Mankind." The goodly number of heroic ladies of the Order, 
who, prompted by the reminiscences of woman's devotion to the 
cause of freedom in the persons of our Revolutionary mothers, to- 
gether with that universal, patriotic impulse which seemed to })er- 
meate every throbbing heart on this jjroud occasion of the grand 
centennial jubilee, was worthy of all praise. After the pr;)C'ession 
had reached its destination, and permission given by the grand 
marshal of the day, the Patrons were formally dismissed by their 
marshal, Dr. Enos Holmes, who, in behalf of the executive com- 
mitte and the citizens of Hillsboro, thanked them for their pres- 
ence, and especially the ladies of the Order — not only for their de- 
votion to the cause of human liberty, but also for their heroism 
in showing their fidelity to the Order. 



THE COUNTY OP HIGHLAND. 85 

ORDER OF EXERCISES. 

At half-past eleven a. m. the vast multitude was called to order 
by C. S. Bell, (chairman of the executive committee, who read 
the proclamation of the president of the United States recommend- 
ing religious observances in conjunction with the festivities of the 
day. An appropriate prayer was then offered by Rev. J. W. 
Weatherby, pastor of the Baptist church, after which INIr. Bell an- 
nounced the officers of the day, to-wit: President, Dr. David No- 
ble; vice-presidents, Hon. J. M. Barrere and John A. Trimble, 
Esq.; secretaries, C. H. Collins, J. C. Springer, J. L. Boardman 
and C. C. Parks. 

Dr. David Noble, president of the day, was thereupon intro- 
duced to the audience and made the following eloquent opening- 
remarks and address of welcome : 

Ladies, Gentlemen; mid Fello^r Citizens: — I esteem it a very great 
honor to be called upon to jireside over so vast and respectable an 
assemblage of our ])eople here to-day. The compliment is greatly 
enhanced when I take into consideration the fact that I have been, 
reared on foreign soil, and am only a citizen among you by choice 
and adoption. Here permit me to say that all my sympathies are in 
accord with the spirit of our free institutions, and that all my capabili- 
ties, both mental and physical, would be exercised, if need be, in 
defending the honor and maintaining the integrity of our common 
country, no matter when, where, or by whom assailed. 

We have now met under the shade of these beautiful forest trees 
to celebrate, in such manner as we shall deem most ai)])roi)riate, the 
return of that day which one hundred years ago gave birth to this 
nation, and which proclaimed that great fundamental principle of free 
government that Iminan rigJits are of paramount importance to Innnan 
lavs, and a pledge and guaranty that they should ever remain invio- 
late in our system of national juris]>rudence. 

We do not meet to-day as Democrats or as Republicans, or as parti- 
sans of any political school, or as adherents of any particular sect or 
.creed, nor ff)r the i)urpose of advancing the claims of anj- political 
aspirant to position or place, or with the design of discussing any of 
the political issues of the hour, or to say what shall or sJudl not be the 
tinancial jiolicy of our (Government, or whether the dominant party 
shall adopt a soft or a hard financial basis; but we have met for a far 
higher, holier, nobler object — for the purjjose of laying our past dif- 
ferences, prejudices and i)redilections on the altar of our country, 
and renewing our covenant faith with each other and our allegiance 
to our government, and striking hands as brothers and i)raying the 
God of our fathers that we may be worthy to transmit to coming 
generations that heaven-ljorn boon of liberty which has been vouch- 
safed to us, and that peace and harmonj- may prevail among all our 
people, and that every heart may respond to that memorable senti- 
ment, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inse})arable." 

When the Continental Congress met in 1776, however determined 
the colonists had been to resist oppression even unto death, the idea 



86 THE HISTORY OF 

of independence had never been uttered. And here we may pause 
in ever-increasing wonder and admiration at the august assembly 
of brave and determined men, regarded as rebels and outlaws by 
the mother government — they staked their lives, their fortunes, their 
all, on a single cast of the die. But theirs was the bravery to 
dare and the ability to execute. All that could make the council- 
chamber dignified and sublime were congregated there. There was 
the proud and enlightened statesmanship of a Jefferson, the spartan 
firmness and courage of a Hancock, the impetuous zeal and burning 
eloquence of an Adams, the sound and philosophic views of a Frank- 
lin, to whose genius even the lightning of heaven itself yielded — all 
were there. It was a contest for principle, a .struggle for the very 
essence and soul of Liberty. 

The effects of the Declaration, who can tell? There it stands — 
it speaks for itself — like a Doric column, simple and unadorned, yet 
magnificent and sublime. Search all the records of the old or new 
world — in a word, ransack all the hoary registers of time, and can 
you find its equal? No. Among the triumphs of the 2)en it has no 
parallel; it is the ^lagna Charta of the rights and privileges of man. 
Guided by its princii)les and governed l)y its precepts, the bulwarks 
of a free gcivernment are impregnable. Its talented and illustrious 
author this day just half a century ago closed his memorable life. A 
halo of clustering honors surrounds his tomb. If Ave seek among 
the inscriptions that tell us of Britain's departed great, amid the aisles 
of Westminster Abbey, you will And no title so imposing as that 
which dignifies his epitaph — "The Author of the Declaration of 
Independence." 

What a glorious inheritance is ours — what blood-bought blessings 
and privileges do we enjoy to-day, and how incumbent upon us to 
transmit to posterity these free institutions as unsullied and untarn- 
ished as they have been handed down to us; so that as the sun in his 
diurnal course sheds his rays upon the earth, he will shine on no land 
more honored, more happy, more united or more free, than our own 
beloved country. 

Our nation in the pad is glorious in her proud achievements, in 
her great success, in her mighty progress, in her indomitable prowess— 
indeed, our history is so wonderful as to challenge the admiration of 
the world; our successes unparalleled and our advancement almost 
miraculous. Our present is full of every-day life work, developing 
new issues and interprises. Our futii re is filled with grand probabili- 
ties, the realization of which depends on our own and God's help. 

Let but the United States, in her rapid career, keeping ever as now 
in the vanguard of nations — let her press forward in the cause of 
freedom, of justice, of humanity, and beneath the broad folds of that 
bright banner will be gathered all nations of the earth. 

i/?/ Countri/mev — and I use that term in its broadest and best sense 
— we have gathered together on this grantl Gentennial year — on this, 
the natal day of American Independence, and with forty-three mil- 
lions of freemen, from the Adirondacks on the north to the Gulf on 
the south, from the rock-bound coast (jf the Atlantic to the golden 
sands of the Pacific, let there arise this day one long, loud, joyous 
Centennial shout of freedom, so that the listening nations of the 
despotic old world, catching the sound, and imitating (jur example, 
will, like us, resolve to be free. 

Fellow-citizens of Highland county, in the name and behalf of the 
good people of Hillsboro, I bid you, and every one present, a hearty, 
thrice heartv, welcome. 



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After the conclusion of the remarks of the president of the day- 
lie invited the vice-presidents selected by the different townships 
to take their seats upon the stand. The National hymn, "Amer- 
ica," was then sung, led by Mr. John R. Doggett, with an accom- 
plished choir of male and female singers, accompanied by the 
Hillsboro Band. The president of the day then announced the 
reading of the Declaration of Independence as the next thing in 
the order of exercises. The reader, he said, was a gentleman who 
required no inti-oduction at his hands ; he was known personally 
to nearly all in the county, and by reputation all over Southern 
Ohio, having served the people faithfully as a legislator in the State 
Senate ; and not only in that capacity, but in the many other im- 
portant public trusts which have been reposed in him by our citi- 
zens, he had performed every duty with credit to himself and 
honor to his constituents. Perhaps it was not generally known 
that he had performed the same service at yonder court-house 
just half a century ago; and when he read at that time (1826) 
these words, penned by the immortal Jefierson, "All men are cre- 
ated equal and endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable 
rights," his heart beat in unison with the sentiment, even at that 
early date, when the advocates of the doctrine Avere few — but now 
happily endorsed or acquiesced in by all. 

Hon. Samuel E. Hibben was then introduced to the audience 
as the reader of the Declaration of Independence. 

Mr. Hibben then stepped forward, leaning on his cane for sup- 
port, and spoke as follows : 

SPEECH OF HON, S. E. HIBBEN. 

Lndii'x (Old Gevtlnnfii, Friends, Nfiyhbors, and 

Felloiv Citizens, Young and Old: 

To your partiality, and by the invitation of your committee of 
arrangements, I am greatly indebted for the position I occupy this 
day. ^To read the Declaration made by our ancestors of the 4th of 
July, 1776, in the presence and hearing of those who are now the 
beneficiaries of that grand state paper, is always a service of pleas- 
ure and comfort to any one who has the honor and privelege of per- 
forming this duty. B'ut the present occasion makes it doiibly pleas- 
ing and heart-cheering to me. For many reasons I feel happy, after 
a lapse of fifty years, although feeble in bodily strength, by reason 
of having passed my three score and ten, yet still preserved in life, 
and now permitted to perform the same service I had the honor of 
doing in the presence of some of the old soldiers of the American 



88 THE lilSTORY of 

Revolution and many patriotic citizens of Highland county, at the old 
court house, in Hillsboro, the very day when the author of the im- 
mortal declaration, together with his eloquent contemporary, gave 
up their lives, and ceased their labors forever among men. 

It would not be in accordance with the fitness of things, for the 
reader to turn orator of the day, but impelled by the inspiration of 
the hour, together with the flattering introduction I have just received 
from the eloquent lips and tongue of your distinguished president 
of the day, I cannot refrain from, at least, tendering him my devout 
thanks, as also to the committee of arrangements, commending their 
programme, so much in consonance with the spirit which animated 
the hearts of the fathers of 1776. 

1st. The eloquent and well timed welcome tendered to the people by 
the honored president of the day. 

2nd. The reading of the proclamation of the President of the United 
States, replete with good sense and patriotic sentiment. 

3rd. Invoking the blessing of the Supreme Being upon those then 
and there assembled ; as well as upon our Land and Nation, remind- 
ing us of Him to whom our fathers appealed for the rectitude of their 
conduct, when giving publicity to the imi)erishable state paper which 
proclaimed three millions (jf i)eople free and independent at the 
peril of their Liven, Fortunes, and Sacred Honors. Reminding us also 
of the deep solemnity of the occasion, when the discussion ended 
upon the motion to adopt this Declaration, July 2, 1776, before the 
vote was taken, at the suggestion of Samuel Adams, seconded by John 
Adams, Rev. Mr. Duche, a minister of the Established Church, was 
invited to lead the Continental Congress in asking the direction of 
Infinite Wisdom in this, the time that "tried men's souls." The 
Man of God consented, and in the performance of his duty, is thus 
described by John Adams: "He ai)peared in his Pontificals with 
his clerk, and after reading the 35th Psalm, continued to read several 
prayers from the established form, and then struck out into an ex- 
temporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every one present, and 
a better ]>'rayer I never heard; and so well pronounced, in language 
eloquent aiid sublime." It seemed as if Heaven had ordained that 
Psalm to be read on that morning, and the sequel shows that the offer- 
ing was manifestly acce})ted and ai)proved. Thus we have followed 
in the footsteps of our illustrious predeces.sors, l)y the devout ac- 
knowledgment in our publii' assemblies, of the su|)erintending 
and overruling hand of Divine Providence, and here we are to-day, 
assembled by invitation of the " powers that be," for the purpose of 
celebrating the natal day — the Centennial Anniversary of our nation's 
birth. As the record of this day maybe read by our children, and 
children's children, allow me in conclusion to refer to some incidents 
connected with the adoption and signing of this document. The 
original report of the Committee of Five, Jefferson being chairman, was 
l)resented for ado})tion, it was subjected to a number of amendments, 
one of which was remarkable for its historic value. The words, " Free 
and Equal," as applied to all men, was in the original draft drawn by 
Jefferson; the word//YY', was on motion struck out, which afterwards 
laid the foundation for the continuance of the African Slave Trade 
for 20 years from the adoption of the Constitution of the United 
States. Had this stood as it was originally reported, Slavery would 
then and there have been abolished, and all the untold misery resulting 
from the system have been avoided. And, finally, I could not feel 
at liberty to close my remarks without reference to one of the most 
pleasing incidents and attractions of the day we celebrate. I allude 



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to the chime of BclU exhibitetl in the procession by our largc-liearted 
and patriotic townsman, Capt. C. Bell, the founder of the Bdl foun- 
dry in this city. Tlie music from the bells gave new inspiration 
to every patriotic heart, and carried us back to the days when the 
great Hebrew Captain issued his immortal ukase to the redeemed 
captives from Egyi)tian bon«Uige and "proclaimed liberty through- 
out tiie land, to afl tiic inhabitants thereof." 

I now introduce you to my young friend, Mr. Edw. Sloan, who has 
kindly consented to read for me. 

Mr. Sloan then came forward and proceeded to read tlie im- 
mortal charter of liberty in excellent style. 
MiLsic by the bands. 
Song, "Star-Spangled Banner." 
Adjourned for dinner until two P. M. 

AFTERNOON EXERCISES, 

Music by the bands. 

Song, "A Thousand Years," sung in a very superior manner by 
Capt. Geo. B. Gardner ; chorus by the Glee Club. 

The president then introduced Hon. Henry L. Dickey, of 
Greenfield, the orator of the day. 

OR.\TION OF HON. H. L. DICKEY. 

Ladies and Gentleinen : — It is a dithcidt task to successfully rei)eat an 
old story, familiar to all, l)ut that which should have an abiding place 
in our minds, that which we should cherish, and which should be the 
foundation of education and character, cannot be too often repeated, 
nor too deeply im]iressed upon us. The story of the causes which 
led to the Declaration of Indei)endence by the fathers of our Repub- 
lic, and of the struggle which followed is familiar to all; but so, too, 
the story of the Cross is old ; yet who will say that i( shall not be re- 
membered, that itwhall not be often repeated and deeply impressed 
upon the mind, yea, made the very foundation of education and char- 
acter ; and who will say that close besi<le it, enshrined in evei\v heart 
of this broad and beautiful land, should not be the story of the glori- 
ous struggle of our Revolutionary fathers for lilierty and imlepend- 
ence ? 

Those who would be willing to lay aside and forget our national 
holiday, who do not foster recollections of the events attending our 
nation's birth, who do not with generous hearts and sul)lime gratitude 
thank Him who made the land and sea, for our independence and 
freedom, our peace, our union and our prosperity, are surely unmind- 
ful or careless of the liberty secured and enjoyed under the })rovisions 
of our matchless written constitution. 

The rebellion of our forefathers against the tyranny and oppres.sion 
of Great Britain ; the establishment by them of the government we 
enjoy, where civil and religious liberty dwell in harmony, under 
whose benign influence civilization and progress have made a growth 



90 THE HISTORY OF 

unequaled in the history of the world, was an achievement in the 
highest degree worthy of commemoration by their j)Osterity. 

The Fourth of July, 1776! one hundred years ago to-day! What a 
world of thought clusters around the glorious names and the thrilling 
events of those times ! Sorely and grievously had they suffered from 
the unjust laws and oppressions of the English crown. They were 
ready with Lord Camden to exclaim — "Taxation and representation 
are inseparably united. That God hath joined them together, and 
no British i)ar"liament, with all its pretended transcendent power, 
could put them asunder." Deeply impressed with the principles of 
liberty, and viewing the powers of just government from the elevated 
plane"upon which they established it, they sat in Independence Hall 
deliberating upon their future conduct. 

The city of Philadelphia was thronged with an anxious crowd, un- 
easily awaiting the final determination of the momentous question. 
Throughout tlie thirteen colonies, and indeed in all Europe, were the 
people watching closely the events transpiring at Philadelphia. 

The immortal signers of the Declaration of Independence carefully 
investigated the immense importance of their action. In secret, sol- 
emn, earnest and prayerful consultation did they weigh the import- 
ance and probable results of their action. 

The Declaration had been read before them. John Adams rose 
and in a clear, determined voice declared that "it was true, that in 
the beginning we aimed not at independence, but there's a divinity 
which shapes our ends, and I am for this Declaration of Independence." 
All hearts concurred and the bonds were severed. They broke in 
pieces the chains which were forged around them, and the rod of op- 
pression which was held above them, and cut asunder forever the 
ties which had bound them to the mother country. 

By that act they launched into a dark and almost fathomless abyss 
of uncertainty, over whose pitiless storms, after seven years of untold 
misery, hardship and war, they finally triumphed, having planted 
firmly and securely the great corner stone of liberty and equal rights. 
The li])erty bell proclaimed the startling news from the tower of In- 
dependence Hall, and the joyous shouts of hundreds rent the air. 
It was the death knell of tyranny and oppression in Columbia's hap- 
py land, and the birth of our freedom. 

True, Dr. Franklin had said to his countrymen, "the sun of liberty 
is set; you must light up the lamps of industry and economy." But 
the people replied, "we will light other lights and resist unlawful and 
oppres.sive measures." 

The camp fires of liberty were kindled throughout the length and 
breadth of the thirteen colonies. The blaze of freedom burst from 
every patriotic bosom, and the mighty wave of liberty began to roll, 
hurried on bv very breath of heaven. 

Oh ! could "we, and all the people, more fully realize the oppressions 
upon the colonies, that forced the sages and heroes of the revolution 
into open resistance of the mother country, and filled their hearts 
with an ins]>iring liberty, how much more would we revere the beau- 
tiful fal)ric of government they have transmitted us, and which it is 
our duty to hand down in its glory and purity to our posterity! 

Burdened l)y unjust taxation, galled and harrassed by the tortur- 
ing claims of an overgrown power, false in its pretenses, false in its 
acts, regardless of its promises and unfaithful to its pledges, they 
burst the bands that held them to such a government, and hazarded 
their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor for their freedom. 
The "Sons of Liberty" were organized, the stamp officers and 



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revenue collectors were burnt in effigy everywhere. The populace 
seized and burned the stamps in New York; lawyers, doctors, mer- 
chants and business men entered into solemn comi)acts, refusing to 
use stamps or to import goods from Great Britain. Whips in the har- 
bor of Boston were boarded, duty-taxed tea tiirown into the ocean, 
and that whicli was designed as a means of extorting tribute from 
the colonies, became an ofTering of the "spirits of the vasty deep." 

A bill to "discontinue the landing and shipping of goods, wares 
and merciiandise at the town of Boston or within the harbor," was 
passed by parliament. This act was followed by another "for the 
better regulating of government in INIassachusetts bay," and this bj' 
another which banished offenders to Great Britain for trial. 

The proud and glittering arms of old England waved upon the 
colonial shores and felt themselves unconquerable. Thej^ scorned 
our thought of independence, and looiied from their haughty posi- 
tion in utter contempt upon our reljellious sjjirit. The militia began 
to collect, and military stores were i)rovided. To destroy these at 
Concord, the British (teneral. Gage, secretly dispatched a regiment, 
who on their way tired upon a party of militia at Lexington, where 
the first blood was spilled in the revolutionary war, and gave us, not 
only a i)roud position among the nations of the world — but liberty 
and those free institutions, which are the enduring foundation of our 
glory, prosperity, and increasing greatness, unparalleled in the annals 
of the world. 

The men of the continental congress, and of the continental army 
had faith in their cause — they felt that it was just. 

" Thrice is lie armed wlio hatli Ills quarrel just. 
And lie but naked, though locked up in steel, 
Who.se conscience with injustice is corrupted." 

Wonderful men! wonderful women! of the revolutionary period ! 
As we recede from the time in which they lived, and as the grand 
march of civilization and enteri)rise dashes new and startling lights 
upon us, shall we permit the glory of their fame and memory to 
become less? Or, as we enter upon the second century of our grand 
career, shall we neglect to celebrate the anniversary of our nation's 
birth, and recur to the sublime principles of civil and religious liberty 
with whicli we are lilessed ? 

The fathers of our republic have all passed away. They, whose 
every grave should be held a sacred spot by every American ; they, 
whose characters and lives stand a living monument, admire<i by the 
civilized world; they, whose posterity we are proud to be called, and 
wIkj loved to show us how fields were lost and won, are gone, and the 
impressions and recoilec^tions of the history of their struggle for our 
liberty, brought to mind by the sight of one of their aged forms, 
kept warm in our bosoms that love, attachment, and devotion that 
our free constitution deserves. 

Whilst they were among us, and we could see their eyes kindle 
from the stories of the revolution, we could catch something of the 
spirit that animated their noble natures, and thus be inspired in some 
degree with the ardor of "the times that tried men's souls," and 
planted upon this continent the grandest form of government God 
ever vouchsafed to man. 

The historian and the orator may portray the .scenes of their event- 
ful struggle with all the pathos and feeling of which language is 
capable, but no book can relate those scenes as could the living wit- 



9'2 THE HISTORY OF* 

nesses. No historian, no orator, can fire the heart with that fervent, 
passionate love of liberty, as could the revolutionary sire, by his story 
of the f)j)pressions of a tyrannical king. 

How, tlien, shall we preserve that devotion to our country, and 
hand it down to posterity, so that they may in time to come, admire, 
protect and maintain it? 

When the time shall come that the "windows of my soul" are to 
he closed in death, I want to feel assured that the principles of our 
glorious and free constitution are so firmly implanted in the affections 
of those I leave behind, that no earthly j^jwer can disturb them, and 
that for all time they may remain the light and guiding star of free- 
dom on eartli. 

" We all within our graves shall sleep, 

A hundred years to come, 
Nf) living soul lor us shall weep, 

A hundred years to come! 
But other men our lands shall till, 
And others then our streets shall fill; 

A hundred years to come." 

But shall the spirit of our liberties be buried in the graves of our 
fathers? Shall future generations forget the price of their freedom? 
No, God forbid! 

Then let the anniversary l)e forever commemorated ; let the Fourth 
of July forever be a national holiday, let posterity be taught to revive 
it as the birth-daj' of their freedom. 

If in the future, as in the past, we continue to keep true to our in- 
stitutions; if the intelligence of our people continues to be the safe- 
guard of our constitution ; neither the changes of time, nor the ambi- 
tion of men are to be feared. 

But when the Fourth of July shall have become no more to the 
American people, than any other day; when the names of Washing- 
ton, Warren, Marion, Franklin and Henry, shall 1)6 no more revered 
and held sat'red in tiie great heart of America; when the fiag of our 
union, the nation's banner, the emblem of unity, liberty, and power, 
whose fabric was woven amid the struggles of the revolution; that 
has never been unfurled but to victory, and knows no defeat; whose 
equally lustrous stars have l)een added by the blood and treasure of 
our people ; respected by every nation, jjrotei'ting the citizen in every 
clime, guarding commerce everywhere; whose presence speaks of a 
nation in whose union there is strength; when these shall be neg- 
lected or forgotten, then indeed will we know that the withering and 
blighting finger of decay is leveled at the waning columns of our 
glorious institutions. 

Temporary agitation, ebullitions of ])opular excitement and party 
strife, and even violence in our government, will occur. We cannot 
exi)ect a i)erpetual calm. 

It is the great conflct between truth and error, which are at war 
the world over, and which under our free constitution have e\'ery 
oi)portunity of c( >ml)at ; thus offering and inviting the means by whicli 
wise and beneficent reforms are secured. In this clash of ideas the 
shock is often great. Our past one hundred years has seen many of 
them. Good. men sometimes despair; the nation seems reeling and 
ready to fall; the great white columns of liberty, justice, and equal 
rights seem rocking to and fro, ready to crumble into dust. But hark! 
The tread of ai-nis and the clash of steel is heard in the land; the 



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smoke of battle, tlic groans of tlyiug, the cries of iuournin<>-, and the 
shouts of victory, till full the air; the old world stands aghast, and with 
amazement beholds the terrific struggle of our republic. The storm is 
past, andlikethe purified atmosphere, healthier and firmer than T)efore, 
we stand unshaken and innndvablc upon the i)rinciples of our fathers, 
the Declaration of Independeniie, and all men bow in humble sub- 
mission ])efore the Mcujiut (Jhavta of our Unitetl Country. How nobly 
grand, how truly sublime in the contemplation of the citizen, is this 
happy result. Re-established and re-alRrmeil are the principles which 
shall endure while written constitutions last. No North, no South, 
can now be truly said, and discrimiiuitions cannot justly exist. Grasp- 
ing in our great arms llie shores of the two mighty oceans of the 
world, our broad expanse, reaching from the mountains of the far 
north to the plains of Mexico, with a constitution forbidding and 
prohibiting involuntary servitude except for crime, we have indeed 
reached the acme of human freedom, and stand in proud immensity, 
a world within ourselves. 

Mr. President: — This is a day wlien the fretful themes of politics 
are allowed to rest. We I'ise far above mere party cpiestion and par- 
ty pride. Home divisions and issues upon questions of policy are 
hushed, and side by side, and hand in hand, men and women of all 
creeds and parties, join in doing honor to the memory of those, who, 
'one hundred years ag(j to-day, laid so broad and so deep the funda- 
mental doctrines of our giant. republic. They had their fears and 
doubts of the stability of their great work, and they uttered in un- 
mistakable language their warning. 

Washington, in his farewell address, said: 

" In contemplating the causes which may disturl > our union, it occurs 
as a matter of serious concern, that any ground should be furnished 
for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations." 

And again: "The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the 
powers of all departments in one ; and thus create, whatever the 
form of government, a real despotism." 

The first of the dangers here referred to was dissolution; the second, 
centralization. These were the two dangers equally fraught with 
evil, which like ill-starred demons, hovered from the beginning over 
our republic; antagonistic in their nature, yet each seeking with equal 
alacrity every opportunity to derange, agitate and destroy; and so 
wonderful in their nature seem these enemies of liberty, so cunning- 
ly devised their plans, that the failure of one might be seized u]ion 
by the other to advance its interests. Good men of all parties dreaded 
their existence. Frowns and threats from either, have wrenched 
from liberty many concessions, their efforts have often shaken the 
temple of freedom to its very foundation, and seemed ready to engulf 
in an unfathomable abyss the fair fabric of our union. 

The one, the bolder of the two, is, I think we may safely say, driven 
from the land forever. 

The struggle, though severe, long and bloody, as man)- a hard fought 
field attests, yet at last from the clash of arms and the smoke of bat- 
tle, triumphant rise the hosts of freedom, and dissolution is no more. 

But the other, more dangerous than ever before, still lives and 
seems more active ; its treacherous flatteries and its lust for power, 
its stealthy tread and fearful ambition, demand from you, ye sons of 
freedom, eternal vigilance. It comes not with the bold front of disso- 
lution, arrayed in the panoply of war, but slowly, silently, certainly, 
grasping within the ambitious clutch, little by little, from the noble 
edifice of constitutional government; until at last, like the great boa- 



94 THE HISTORY OF 

constrictor, it will crush in its venomous coil the brightest hopes of 
the civilized world. 

Centralization is a living, a(^ting enemy, presenting itself in many 
forms and questionable shapes. It is wily and seductive, and I can 
but repeat the warning of Washington^that its tendency is to create 
" whatever the form of government, a real despotism ; it is the cus- 
tomary weapon by which free governments are destroyed." 

But I repeat, that if the people remain true to themselves and their 
institutions; if in the future as in the past, they shall continue to be 
the safe-guards of their own liberty, then M'ill centralization, the twin 
vampire upon the body politic, with dissolution, sleep with him the 
sleep of everlasting death, and tlien indeed will the full hopes of 
the sires of '7(i be realized; and our Union, like tlie Univer.se of God, 
harmonious forever, shall live as states and live as a Nation. 

Kes})ect for the recpiirement^! of tlie law, and obedience to its au- 
thority, as a matter of i)rin('iple, is one of the characteristics of the 
American people, and distinguishes them from the people of other 
nations, where fear is the source of obedience. To this fact, this edu- 
cation, do we largeh' owe our prosperity ; and if we shall but con- 
tinue it, what grandeur and increased power still await us. 

With the beautiful machinery of our government moving smoothly 
on, furnishing the finest fruits of the i'on([uests of liberty to its forty 
millions of people; its great lakes and mighty rivers bearing on theiu 
bosoms its conmierce and its trade ; the bewildering net-work of end- 
less railroads and telegraiihs, destroyilig distance, and binding us still 
more closely together as a i)eople ; with our grand forests, teeming 
soil and exhaustless resources — who can set boundary to our future ex- 
panse, or dream of the day our sun shall set ? 

The sneering predictions of the crowned heads of Europe have 
failed ; the great experiment of our fathers is an established reality, 
and to us the trust is given, to deliver with all its blessings and ex- 
cellence to those who succeed us. 

Let every true American gladly sustain his part in this great enter- 
prise of life, and join with the multitudes, from whom the music of 
our national hymns ascending, kiss the breezes of heaven and are 
wafted back, to echo through the verdant woods. 

" Great God, we thank thee for this home, 

This bounteous birtliland of tiie free ; 
Wliere wanderers from afar may come 

And breatlie the air of liberty. 
Stili may lier flowers untrammeled spring, 

Her harvest wave, lier cities rise. 
And yet wliile Time sliall fold his wing, 

Remain earth's loveliest paradise." 

HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE COUNTY. 

Mr. James H. Thompson, being introduced by the President, 
said : 

My duty on this occiasion is to do that which is of more permanent 
consequence to this vast assemblage of people than any other occur- 
rence that may transpire on this memoral)le day. 

The duty of a liistorian recording tiie traditions of the i)ast and the 
deeds of the gallant living is so delicate that I will not now do that which 



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might be expected from the programme to be dune. Time and taste 
ahke conspire to dictate that as every thing in the future to be done 
in connection with liistory would imply that it was done as of this 
day. I will ]iroceed to submit my plan for the obtention of the just 
history of this county. 

Mr. Thompson then read the following proclamation of the 
President of the United States : 

"Wherkas, a joint resolution of the Senate and Hou.se of Repre- 
sentatives was duly approved on the loth day of March last, which 
resolution is as follows: 

' Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That it be tind is 
hereby recommended by the Senate and House of Representatives to 
the several States that they assemble in their several counties, or 
towns, in the approaching centennial anniversary of our National In- 
dependence, and that they cause to have delivered on such day an 
historical sketch of said county, or town, from its formation, and that 
a copy of said sketch may be filed in print or manuscript in the 
Clerk's office of said county, and an additional copy in print or manu- 
script be filed in the office of the Librarian of Congress, to the intent 
that a complete record may thus be obtained of tlie progress of our 
institutions during the first centennial of their existence; ' and 

"Whereas, It is deemed proper that such recommendation be brought 
to the notice and knowledge of the people of the United States, now, 
therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, do here- 
by declare and make known the same, in the hope that the object of 
such resolution may meet the approval of the people of the United 
States, and that proper steps may be taken to carry the same into 
efTect. 

"Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this 26th day of 
May, in the year of our Lord 1876, and of the independence of the 
United States the one hundredth. By the President, 

U. S. GRANT. 
"Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State." 

Then emphasizing the words in the resolution of Congre.ss, "to 
the intent that a complete record may thus be obtained of the pro- 
gress of our institutions during the first centennial of their exis- 
tence," offered the following report and resolutions : 

HiLL,SBORO, 0., July 4, 1876. 
In res})ectful obedience to the foregoing joint resobition of the 
Senate and House of Representatives of the United States and proc- 
lamation of the President of the 25th day of May, A. 1). 1876, the 
])eople of Highland county, Ohio, having assemljled at Hillsboro, the 
seat of justice of their county, to celebrate the centennial birth of 
their national existence, and having by previous arrangements for 
such celebration, ap))ointe(l the undersigned to deliver on this day 
an historical sketch of said county, he begs leave to report that he 
finds in the brief space of time elapsing since his appointment, that 
he cannot, after much inquiry and research, present such historical 
sketch as would truly present the history of the county ; and there- 



96 THE HISTORY OF 

lore, in justice to the i)opuIation, he asks the adoption of the following 
resolutions : 

1st. That the following named persons of each township in said 
county, to-wit, P. N. \Mekerhani and Joseph W. Spargur, of Brush- 
creek; Henry Wilkins and John Miller, of Concord; James Brown 
and Henry Ruble, of Clay ; Tliomas Peale and Daniel Murphy, of 
Dodson ; Judge Wni. Morrow and Kuel Beeson, of Fairfield: Alex. 
Sanderson and Alex. Murjihy, i>f Hamer; George Gilmore and Abra- 
ham Hurst, of Jackson; Wni. H. (ilenn and Wm. H. AVoodrow, of 
Liberty; Thos. 'M. Boyd and Milton Dunlap, of Madison; C. G. Dick 
and John L. Hughes, of Marshall ; M. M. Barrere and Benj. Cochran, 
of New Market; I>. 3\1. ]^)urrett and Jesse Crawford, of Paint; Joseph 
Morrow, ICsq., and Albert Jt)hnson, of Penn ; David Workman and 
Calvin Stroup, of Salem ; James B. Herron and Samuel Russell, of 
Union ; Isaac Kibler and Josej)!! ( iaymon, of Whiteoak ; Thos Hig- 
gins and Sampson Reno, of Washington, l)e requested, 1)y the assist- 
ance of such otliers as they may call to their assistance, to furnish to 
the undersigned the historical facts which have characterized the 
organization and progress of their several townships, which, in their 
several opinions, might be of interest to the population of such town- 
ships. 

2d. That on the receijjt of such report, that a meeting of said com- 
mittee and the undersigned be held, and that jointly they present 
such brief historical sketch of the said county as in their opinion 
would meet the foregoing resolution. 

."id. That when said sketch is completed, if, in the opinion of all the 
county authorities, it ought to be published with this day's proceed- 
ings and furnished to the people at the expense of the county, that 
then the County Commissioners be requested to have said history 
{)ublished in such manner and form as to them may seem best. 

JAS. H. THOMPSON. 

Mr. Thompson then j)roceeded to say that he found it very 
difficult to ascertain all the legends connected with the first settle- 
ments of the county, and that so far as liis research had extended 
he found the settlements as various in their origin as were the 
streams and springs for which the county was characterized. 
However, tlie origin of such settlements may have been, neverthe- 
less, tlie Scotch-Irish and Irish blood intermingled, in some parts 
of the county, witli the Dutch or (Jerman blood, constitute more 
than nine-tenths of the pojjulation ; and that as song and poetry 
had always characterized tlie bloods of these nations, he did not 
think that any one ouglit to describe and fix by the permanent 
record of history the tastes and habits of such peoples, unless he 
Avas fully inspired by the music of the one or poetry of the other. 
Not claiming either of these gifts, and believing that united with 
the English or Anglo-Saxon bloods, that these races would finally 
control all the civilization and general policy of the world, he 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHI^ANI). 97 

thought it was best to leave to such advisers as had been proposed 
the pevmaiieut history of the races, unless his fate might be that 
of Burn's imagination of banishment, when he wrote: 

"Farewell tu the mountains high covered with snow; 
Farewell to the straths and green vallej^s below; 
Farewell to the forest and wild-hanging woods; 
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods. 
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, 
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; 
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, 
My heart's in the Highlands, wherevei- I g(j." 

Col. Wm. O. Collins then moved that the report and resolutions 
as presented by Mr. Thompson should be adopted, and advocated 
their adoption with some very forcible and pertinent remarks; 
which motion was then seconded by Judge Samuel F. Steele, and 
sustained in a manner worthy the Judge's high reputation. 

And thereupon said report and resolutions were unanimously 
adopted by the meeting of the people. 

Music by the bands. 

Meeting adjourns to the court house squai-e to witness the ex- 
hibition of steam fire engines. 

DISPLAY OF FIRE DRPARTMENT AT THE COURT HOITSE SQUARE. 

Vast multitudes of people filled our streets to witness the dis- 
})lay of tlie fire department. At the appointed hour the fire 
company, in their gay uniforms, came to the cistern in front of 
the court house park in a rush from the engine-room with two 
hose-carriages surmounted with their ringing bells, the splendid 
steam fire-engine with its gaudy trappings and full head of steam 
and "whistle blowing, the firemen and engineer in their appropriate 
positions, followed by the efficient hook and ladder company, 
the members of which were also gaily uniformed ; and in a very 
short space of time they were all at their positions. Through a 
hundred feet of hose, water was thrown at a height of two hun- 
dred feet. All presented a very exciting and animated appear- 
ance to the thousands of people, many of whom had never wit- 
nessed an exhibition of the kind before. At the same time the 
hook and ladder company ascended the building of John A. Smith, 
and with their hose threw another stream to an equal height of 
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98 



THE HISTORY OF 



the first. Tlie tbllowiiio- is a list of tlie officers and iihmi heloiitiinji- 
to the (litferent divisions: 



OFITCEHS. 



Captain. 

Lieutenant, 
President, 
Vice President, 
Secretary, 
Treat^iirer, 



K. Stevknson. 
M. Lemons. 
.1. M. Hies TAN I). 
John ^^o(^RE. 
Wm. Schw.vkt/. 

PeTEH BliOWN. 



HILLSfiORO STEAMEi; DIVISION. 



Jji rector,,]. B. Kowe. Engineer, S. Mahan. Stoker,. ]i)iis Wakhen. 

Jas. Bakek, C. S. Brown, Peter Brown, 

W. Donahue, D. Naylor, Hobt. I)i kfkv, 

Leo. Frankee, T. G. Hoocjard, B. Hammile, 

J. Koch, Sol. Knott, S. B. Lemon, 

J. ^5. Lyee, John Moore, VV. Mannino, 

Jos. Shott, F. K. 8hei>HERD, Jos. Woods, 



Jos. \N'est 



Eeeis Pence. 



RANCHER division. 

Director, 8. J. Lemon. 

Pipenien , 
Ed. Wright, Jos. Cosby, Jas. Ferotson, ('has. Cosby. 

J. S. Black, George Chaney, A. W. Downham, 

J. M. HiESTAND, Peter Hanlon, T. Hanaford, 

N. Jacobs, T. Roikjers, W. Woodrow, 

Ed. Young, M. Bfrke, F. Pkjard. 



PHlENIX DIVISION. 



JJirector, (). S. Le.mon. 



L. Fahandler, W. Hille, 

J. Stevenson, Wm. Schwartz, 

L. Richards, L. W^essel, 



Jos. Lemon, 
H. Shomber(ser. 
E. A. ZiLE. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 99 

DI-XOKATIONX. 

At tilis point we give below the decorations of l)usiiies>s houses 
and few private residences on High street, on the east and west 
sides, North to Wahiut, and on Main, on both sides from the 
Jefierson House to Kibler & Herrtin's hardware store, the business 
portion of the street. The bahmce of the town was decorated, 
generally, and many residences with remarkal)le good taste, of 
which our space will not permit us to go into detail. 

MAIN STREK-r. 

•Jefferson House, cedar arch, " 7B" in cedar; globe of flags; and 
about fifty flags of all sizes. 

Thos. North, gunsmith, and Jerry Fidler, wagon maker, iiad 
their shop decorated with flags. 

Jenkins & Wessel, butchers, cedar arch, " 177H" and " 1876" 
in red, white and blue, enclosed in cedar wreath. 

E. J. Vanniman, butter and egg store, about twenty flags. 

James Reece, Studebaker wagons, &c., twenty or thirty flags. 

J. R. C'luxton, organ maker, second story of Recce's building. 
Mr. Cluxton, assisted by ^Ir. Reece and son, had one of the hand- 
somest decorations of the day. At the coi-ner of Main and West 
streets, on a stjuare pedestal, sup))oi'ted by a column of cedar 
about six feet high, stood a full size figure of the (Joddess of 
Liberty with her shield, helmet and spear. The figure was draped 
in white, and was an excellent imitation of statuary. vStandiug 
in such a conspicuous position, it attracted great attention, and 
was universally and justly adnnred. 

C. S. Bell, Hillsboi-o foundry; a large flag and about fiftv 
smaller ones were displayed on Mr. Bell's building, and the front 
wa.s beautifully festooned with cedar, variegated with small flays. 
There were also wreaths of cedar, and a handsome shield, with 
the motto, "Lil)erty"in gilt letters, the whole making a verv 
handsome an<l creditable display. 

Young's barber sho]) had about twenty flags and a festoon of 
cedar. 

James Lawrence, sadler, had one large and thirteen small flags, 
and a festoon of cedar intermingled with red. white and blue 
muslin. 



100 THE HISTORY OF 

T. G. Hoggard's haDclsorae store made a fine appearance. He 
had one large and seventy-five smaller flags; a cedar arch under 
the center of cornice, festoon of red, white and blue muslin 
across the front of the building, and wreaths of cedar inclosing 
"1776" and "1876." 

E. W. Shriver, tinware dealer, displayed about a dozen flags 
of various sizes. 

The Kramer House presented a very handsome appearance. 
About the center of the front was a large cedar wreath, inclosing 
the figures, " 76." Festoons of cedar, variegated with miniature 
flags, hung from the veranda, the sign post was wrapped with 
cedar from top to bottom, and the sign covered with little flags. 
Over the ladies' entrance was a beautiful cedar arch, with a por- 
trait of Washington, inclosed in a wreath of cedar. There were 
not less than two hundred large and small flags used on the build- 
ing, and the eflect of the wliole was, as we have said, very fine. 

N. AV. Chaney, jeweler, had about twenty-five flags of various 
.sizes, and a very tasteful cedar arch over the door. 

Thos. McGuire, tobacconist, had a cedar wreath with flags in 
his whidows and a cedar festoon above the door, beside about 
thirty-five flags. 

Dr. K. C. Kuss, second story over McGuire's, displayed a large 
cedar wreath and festoon, and about a dozen flags. 

Lewis Mason's barber shop looked well, with its cedar festoons 
over the front, and on the awning frame, variegated with numer- 
ous small flags. 

Cajjt. George E. Richard's confectionei.y and ice cream saloon 
was very tastefully decorated. A neat arch of cedar- on a red^ 
white and blue ground, spanned the door, in the center of which 
hung a miniature globe, composed of flags of all nations. Fes- 
toons of cedar, and a streamer portrait <if \N'ashingt( n, orna- 
mented with a profusion of flags, adorned the upjjcr story front. 
Not less than two hundred flags were displayed on the building. 

Glascock & Br(js'. hardware store disjilayed two large flags. 

The News Office, in the second and third stories of the Glas- 
cock building, had a heavy cedar festoon suspended from the cor- 
nice, under which the motto, "Liberty and LTnion," in large red, 
white and blue letters, extending across the whole front. Betweeji. 
the upper windows were "1776" and "1M76" in cedar, and below 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 101 

a shield, wreathed with ce(hir. About onv huiKhx'd and twenty- 
five flags, large and small, completed the decoration. 

The Kramer House stable, Kramer, Nordyke & Shack, dis- 
played about fifty Hags m front and rear. 

J. M. Dumenil's insurance agency and law office made a very 
pretty display, with about fifty flags, and wreaths and festoons of 
cedar. 

Gardner <fe Hire, law office, second story over Dumenil's, was 
also decorated with flags, festoons of cedar, and the windows with 
red, white and blue })aper. 

Mrs. L. Read's millinery .store and Mr. L. Detwiler's shoe store, 
occupying the same building, made one of the most tasteful dis- 
play.s on the street. Festoons of cedar extended across the whole 
front, relieved with numerous small flags. Between the upi)er 
windows were two large stars of cedar, and between them the 
motto, "Liberty," in letters of red, white and blue, with a cedar 
anchor beneath. Under each window hung wreaths of cedar, 
with snrall flags crossed. In Mrs. Read's window was a female fig- 
ure gaily draped in the national colors. There wei-e about fifty 
flags in all on the building. 

B. Conard's china store was also handsonu'ly decorated. .\ 
festoon of red, white and blue paper extended across the front, 
which was adorned with portraits of Washington, Martha Wash- 
ington, and Lincoln, and the motto, " \'allev Forge," in blue 
letters on a white ground, bordered with red. A globe of red, 
white and blue ])aper, covered with stars, was suspended from the 
front cornice, the whole profusely ornamented with flags. 

Fred. Zane, leather dealer, had a large flag sus])ended from th(> 
comiice of his building, with festoons of cedar across the upper 
story, large cedar wreaths in each window and over the door. 

John Uhrig's saloon had about twenty flags and cedar festoons 
across the front ; lamjJ |)ost ornamented with cedar wreath and flags. 

Winegardner & Stoddard, gn^cers, had about twenty-five flags, 
festoons and wreath of cedar, with a star in the centei- and " TH" 
in gilt figures. 

IsiXiic Rlujdes, leather dealer, antl H. S. Fvans, grocer, occupy- 
ing the same building, had their front handsomely decorated with 
festoons and wreaths of cedar, and numerous flags of different 
sizes. Mr. Evans also had a cedar ai-ch over his door. 



102 THE HISTORY OF 

Crossing the street, the row beginniug with Kihlei- & Heri-on's 
hardware store on the east, and including B. J. Harris's drv 
goods store on the west, made one of the handsomest displays of 
the day. 

Kibler & Herron had festoons of cedar across the front of their 
building, and stretched over the sidewalk; a festoon of red, white 
and blue muslin above their door, and about fifty flags, large and 
small. 

Smith's drug store also made a pretty display, similar in design 
to that of Kibler & Herron, with the addition of a cedar festoon 
and wreath over the d(Wi'. This store also had about fifty flags. 

Lytic & Son's dry goods store had a large flag over the side- 
walk, with cedar festoons and small flags on front of store. 

Miller & Son, grocers, and Richards & Bro., dry goods, made 
a very handsome joint decoration. They had a large flag over 
the sidewalk, wreaths and arches of cedar over doors and windows, 
with about one hundred small flags. Over Miller & Son's door 
was a large star of cedar on red, white and blue ground. Rich- 
ards & Bro. had their windows very prettily draped with red, 
white and blue muslin. 

B. J. Harris's dry goods store liad festoons of red, white and 
blue suspended from the cornice, cedar wreatiis and about seven ty- 
tivv flags of all sizes. In the windows were poi'traits of Lincoln 
and ( rrant. 

Misses Maddox ctSaggerty, millinery, had an ai'cb of cedar over 
the door, festoons of cedar mingled with red, white and blue, cedar 
wreaths, and about oni; hundred flags. Window decorated with 
red, white and blue silk. 

Walker tt Elliot, shoe dealers, had festoons of cedar in tiieir 
large show windows, profusely trimmed with flags; also, portraits 
of Washington and Martha Washington, wreathed with cedar. 
Two large flags were suspended over the front of the building. 

Seybert & Co., druggists, Smitli's new block, had a large flag 
over the front of their store, and some flfty or sixty small flags, 
cedar festoons over doors and windows, with wreaths and flags in 
windows. The upju'r stories of Smitli's new building has no oc- 
cupants, l)ut wei'c decorated with numerous small flags, and the 
whole building made a handsome appearance. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 108 

Tlie (Jitizen's Bunk had festoons of cedar ovei' its doors, varie- 
i»ated with small ttags. 

Amen, (ii'etii;- t^' Co., Liroccrs, had ahout tifty Haas on the front 
of tlu'ir store. 

Dr. Hoyt's office, second story, over Amen, (ireo*i- iS: ('o., was 
decorated with numerous Hags. 

>[. Calvert, dry goods dealei-, iiad ahout forty flags on the front 
of his store. 

Bee.son & Wright, law office, second .story, over Calvert's, dis- 
j)layed a picture of Washington, adorned with small Hags. 

W. T. Bower's confectionery and residence blo.ssomed all over 
with flags and patriotic emblems. A large flag was stretched 
across the street from his .store to the public square. Over the 
sidewalk was suspended a handsome " Liberty Bell," made of cedar, 
with "7H"in white figures. Wreaths and festoons adorned the 
front, intermingled with flags and Chinese lanterns of I'ed, white 
and blue. Altogether about one hundred and fifty flags were 
used in the decoration of his building, and the whole displav was 
one of the best in town. 

Mr. Jacob iSayler, jeweler and book-seller, had one of the pretti- 
est displays on west Main street. In the center of the building- 
hung a large cedar wreath, inclosing "76" in cedar figures. Fes- 
toons and wreaths of cedar, bedecked with flags to the nmnber of 
one hundred or more, completed the decorations. 

N, Rockhold & Son, hardw'are store, had festoons of cedar very 
tastefully arranged over their door, with " 1776" and " 1876" in 
wiiit(i figures inside two large cedai- w'reaths. They displayed 
about fifty flags. 

Henry Strain & Son, grocers, had festoons of cedar over the 
front of theii- building, a large cedar wreath over the door, encir- 
cling " 1776" in white figures, and about seventy-five flags. 

The handsome Strauss building was very beautifully decorated, 
and attracted great attention. The building is occupied by Strau.ss 
tt Feibel, clothiers, and L. Haymann&Co., liquor dealers, on the 
lower floor, and by Sloane & Smith, law office. Dr. Callahan, 
dentist, and Dr. Metz, in the second story. They all united in 
decorating the whole building. A large flag was suspended from 
the cornice, and about one hundred and fifty smaller flags were 
scattered over the front. Festoons of cedar covered the caps of 



104 THK HISTORA' OF 

the second story windows, and cedar wreaths trimmed with col- 
ored paper hung below tlie windows. In the spaces between the 
windows was the motto in cedar, " Esto Ferpetua," and over the 
center window hung a large cedar wreath. A festoon of red, 
white and blue muslin, stretched gracefully across the whole front 
over the doors, completed the display. 

R. R. Waddell, jeweler, displayed about forty flags of various 
sizes, interminglefl with (;edar wreaths and festoons. 

The law office of Jas. H. Thompson and W. M. Meek, second 
story over \\"addeirs, had small Hags in theii- windows, and cedar 
wreath on front of building. 

John Bowles' bookstore made a very pi'etty display. Over the 
door and windows was the motto, " Liberty and Union," in gilt 
letters, iii the form of an arch, festooned with cedar ; there w^ere 
cedar arches, and a cedar wreath hung over the door, with "76" 
in the center. About fifty flags added to the effect of the display. 
In the windows were a pair of beautiful medallions, made entirely 
of natural flowers, the ground being white, with the figures " 1776" 
and "1876" in tlie center, the figures formed of red, white and 
blue flowers, '^riiis very pretty design w'as executed by Mrs. Fen- 
ner, Mrs. Shaw, and Miss A. Murphy, for the decoration of the 
Episcopal chui-cli at the centennial morning service. 

Chas. Utman, furniture store, and C. Kinkead, photographer, 
in second story of Utman's building, dis])layed about tw^enty-five 
flags, with cedar festoons across the front and above the dooi's 
and windows. 

Musi(" Hall building was luuxlsomely decorated. Spargur'Bros. , 
dry goods dealers, displayed festoons of cedar, and red, white and 
blue muslin over their doors. Scott & Roads, grocers, had fes- 
toons of cedar over their door, "1776" and "1876" in red and 
blue figures, and about fifty flags. The second stoxy, occupied by 
the Ellicott Hou.se, was tastefully decorated with numerous flags, 
a shield with the motto, "Liberty," in gilt letters, surrounded 
with cedar, and cedar festoons along the balcony and over the door. 

The Elllicolt House made a handsome show. It had a large 
flag over the sidewalk — motto in cedar in front of the building — 
" 1776" — Centennial — "1876;" cedar arch and portrait of Wash- 
ington over the ladies' entrance, and sign post decorated with 
numerous flags. About five hundred large and small flags were 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 105 

U8ed ill the decoration oC tln' huiidinu-. The diniii^^-iootn vvit'^ also 
liandsoinely decorated with Hags, cechir, &v. 

Dr. Hohiies' otftee had " 177H"aiid " 1(S7(>" in cc(hir figures, fes- 
toons of cedar, and red, white and hhie niusHn, portrait of Wash- 
ington wreathed with cedar, and about twenty-four flags. 

The Grangers' supply house had a large flag over the sidewalk, 
cedar wreaths and festoons, a plow wreathed with cedar, a streamer 
portrait of Washington, and about fifty flags. 

Utnian, Jeans & Co.'s planing mill, near R. R. depot, had 
about fifty flags, large and small. 

Boyd's flour mill, two large flags. 

The R. R. depot was profusely decorated with hirge and small 
flags. 

J. S. Black's carriage factory on Walnut street, had festoons of 
cedar on the front, and flags above. 

James Clark's livery stable, Walnut street, was gay with flags 
and festoons of cedar. 

HIUH STREET. 

The decorations on High street were very handsome. In our 
account of them we embrace that portion included in the business 
part of the town, commencing at the Woodrow House, on the 
north-east corner of High and Beech street, and extending to 
Walnut street. 

S. E. Parker, landlord .of the Woodrow, had a very fine dis- 
play of flags, festoons and wreaths of evergreen, as well as a pic- 
ture of Washington bidding farewell to his generals, and another 
of AVilliam Penn's treaty with the Indians. A notable feature 
was the trimming of the fine shade-trees in front of the hotel with 
innumerable little flags, which, fluttering in the breeze among the 
the rich green leaves, made a picture very attractive to the eye. 

On the opposite corner stands the stately Masonic Temple. On 
its top floated a large American flag, and the second and third- 
story windows were decorated with a great many flags of diflerent 
sizes, besides wreaths and streamers. The corner room on the first 
floor, occupied by the Spargur Bros, as a dry goods store, was 
decorated with flags. The adjoining room, occupied by M. R. 
Orr's millinery establishment, was decorated superbly. In the 
large show-windows were evergreen wreaths in the shape of harps, 
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106 THE HISTORY OF 

stars and anchors set with beautiful flowers ; also the jiortrait of 
Washington, the motto, " E Plunhv,^ Unnni," all interspersed 
with about fifty flags, of which, altogether, Masonic Temple was 
decorated with over two hundred. 

John Bales' place of business was decorated with wreaths of 
evergreen and a motto of the same material, " Welcome to All," 
besides with about fifty flags. 

Bowman & Co.'s cigar store was decorated with flags, and the 
sign entwined with evergreens. 

The harness shop of Adam Krug was decorated with flags, an 
evergreen festoon over the door, and wreaths appropriately ar- 
ranged. 

The confectionery establishment of Rogers & Billingham was 
handsomely decorated with flags, festoons, wreaths, a star, anchor 
and cross, in evergreen, with the motto, " Peace," of the same 
material. 

Robert Ward decorated his place of business and residence witli 
fifty flags. 

Mrs. Aiuia Morrow, (hess-makcr, had a nice evergreen arch 
erected over the hall-door, with the figures " 76" mclosed therein, 
and the second-story windows, over John L. West's store, decor- 
ated with flags and evergreen wreaths, witli much good taste. 

.lohn L. West's store was decorated with flags. 

The gro('erv store of Miller & Quinn was decorated handsomely 
with flags, and overhanging the front roof were sj)lendid festoons 
of evergreen, while the second-story windows were decorated with 
flags, flower-baskets and wreatlis. This building i)resented a very 
attractive appearance, and the grocery store was the only place 
illuminated at night. 

The store of B. Chaney & Son, in the Trimble block, was 
tastefully decorated. The windows were draped with red, white 
and blue colors, over which hung the portrait of Washington, and 
a very fair picture of his monument erected in Washington City. 
Their dis))lay of flags was interspersed with wreaths of evergreen, 
and, taken altogether, were very fine. 

The queensware store of J. M. Hiestand, in the same building, 
was decorated with a large festoon of (>vergreen, in which was 
intertwined the red, white and blue, and Washington's likeness in 
the center. This, with numerous flags, made a tasteful display. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 107 

The Gazette office, immediately over these stores, was decorated 
in a manner that was very generally admired. Among the rest 
(if its display was an old flag labeled, "That Banner One Hun- 
dred Years Old." 

The hall-door leading to Dr. Shipp's dental rooms, over Schilley's 
stoi-e, was decorated with an arch of evergreen, a cross-sword 
with "7H" in large tigures of evergreen. His windows had hand- 
some wreaths of evergreen, and a fine display of flags. 

Jacob Schilley's boot and shoe store was decorated with flags, 
a large wreath with "1776" in the center, a picture of General 
Washingtf>n, American eagle, and the motto, "Liberty Now and 
Forever." 

Hibben & Son's store was decorated with flags and streamers, 
and the windows draped with red, white and blue tastefully c*om- 
bined. 

J. Lazarus' clothing store was decorated with flags, cedar wreaths 
with stars attached, " 1776" and " 1876," with flags of all nations, 
and both stories had an ample supply of flags. 

James Brown's store was decorated with flags and Chinese lan- 
terns, the windows contained the portraits of Washington and 
Lincoln draped with cedar, and the second story, occupied by Mrs. 
Ferguson, was handsomely decorated with wreaths, stars and flags. 

Shaw & Ivianhard's hardware store was decorated with flags in 
both first and second stories. 

M. Free's clothing store wa.s appropriately decoi-ated w ith flags 
and a large cedar wreath. 

Asa Haynes & Co.'s store was decorated with flags and ever- 
greens, first and second stories. In the third story, the Odd Fel- 
low's Hall was decorated with flags and evergreens. 

The bank of Evans & Ferrife was decorated with flags, and the 
second story, occupied by C'has. H. Collins and Dr. A. Evans, 
was decorated with a grand array of flags, large and small. Mr. 
Collins, with his large display of flags, had a fine wreath with 
the figures "76;" also a Brazilian flag in honor of Dom Pedro's 
visit to this country. 

Specs & Barrere's drug store was decorated with flags, large and 
small, and evergreens, first and second stories. 

The HilLsboro National Bank was decorated with flags. 

The Hon. John A. Smith's grounds and dwelling were decox'ated 



108 THE HISTORY OF 

handsomely with a fine arch of evergreens and small flags over 
the gateway, and the colnmns of the house with red, white and 
blue, and evergreens. 

The Lilley Block, occupied jointly by Wm. Swartz, grocer, and 
Frankel Bros., clothiers, was very tastefully decorated. On the 
windows of the second story, was suspended the full length of the 
building, festoons of cedar, and between the windows were circu- 
lar wreaths of evergreens, the center one larger than the others, 
and the figures, "76," inclosed. This wreath was a very hand- 
some one. The windows of the second story were decorated with 
many flags, as also the awning and windows of the first story. 
The top of the building was surmounted with a large American 
flag. The pictures of Washington and Lincoln also were sus- 
pended from the windows. 

Fred. Trosky's shoe shoji was decorated with flags, cedar wreaths, 
and also circular festoons around the windows, and a large lan- 
tern decorated with flags and })()rtraits of the Presidents. 

D. Koch's establishment was decorated with flags, festoons, 
arches, banners, &c., together with the motto, " Welcome," and 
made a handsome aj^pearance. 

P. C. Eckley's meat store was decorated with flags, &.c.; also, 
Washington's little hatchet, the picture of " Deacon Jones' Family 
at Prayer," and the figures " 1776." 

John Reckly's tin and stove store was decorated with flags and 
the figures "76" in cedar. 

Harsha & Son's marble works were decorated with flags, cedar 
wreaths and " 76." 

Carroll & AVright's carriage factory was decorated \\\t\\ flags, 
the figures " 76," banners of Washington's likeness and Liberty 
Bell. In the sectmd story were about fifty flags. 

Holmes & Son's furniture store was handsomely decorated with 
flags, pictures and evergreens. On the to]) of the building was a 
large cedar arcli with flags, and suspended under it was "76" in 
large figures. Below was a streaniei' of cedar, and over the third- 
story windows were wreaths with stars. Over the center window 
was a hatchet and a bunch of a cherry-tree with cherries; also 
two large shields. The second story was decorated similar to the 
third, with the tuldition of tlu' pictures of George and Mailha 
Washington in place of the shields, and the Liberty Bell; also 



TIIK COUNTY OF IirolIT-ANl). 1()9 

ciirular wreaths between the second and third story windows. 
The lower story had flaus, and the l)nildini;- had si>veiitv-six in 
niunber. 

The Bailey block. oecn})ied by Frank Miller's feed store and M. 
E, Boysell's grocery, on the first floor, and by families in the upper 
stories, was decorated with flags and evergi-eens in a tasteful 
manner. 

On the southwest corner of High and Walnut is the splendid 
City Hall building, containing the Mayor's office, Council cham- 
ber, Pftst-offiee, station-house, &e. , which was decorated with a 
large number of flags — a hundred and over — and over the station- 
house entrance was a wreath with the motto, " Welcome." 

The Mattill corner, on the opposite side, was decorated with 
twenty-five flags. 

Mrs. Wright's residence was decorated with flags, wreaths of 
evergreen, and a portrait of Washington. 

The confectionery of Ellifritz & Eckley was handsomely dec- 
orated with evergreens and about fifty flags; also wreaths, and 
sign decorated handsomely. 

Dr. Noble's office wa.s decorated with flags, wreaths and festoons 
of evergreen, interspersed with one hundred flags, with a large 
American flag over the door. In the window, inclosed in a wreath 
was a beautiful flag with staff and cross enveloped in clouds, with 
moon and stars in the back ground. I'nderneath the following 
motto: "The AVarrior's Banner Takes Its Flight, To Greet the 
Warrior's Soul." 

Samuel Chaney's residence was tastefully decorated with flags. 

Mrs. Thoma.s' tailoring establishment and residence was quite 
handsomely decorated with wreaths and flags. 

Ellifritz & Son's woolen store was decked out in splendid style. 
An American flag constructed of fine worsted yarns of red, white 
and blue, was one of the attractions of the day. 

Mr. Cooley had his residence decorated with flags. 

Stevenson & Young had their clothing store decorated hand- 
somely. They had an arch of evergreens ovei- the top of the 
building, with flags, the figuns "7G" and picture of Washington 
between them, and the Liberty Bell hanging over. Thev als(» 
had erected on a Hag-staff a large American flag, and seventy-five 
small flags promiscuously displayed, making a line decoration. 



110 THE HISTORY OF 

Jos. D. Maddox'?: saddle and harness shop was decorated with 
handsome wreatlis and festoons of cedar and flags. 

Jos. Yonng's ])ail)er shoj) was decorated with Hays and cedar 
wreaths. 

Tener & Zane's butcher shoj) was decorated with tlags and 
wreaths of evergreen. 

Selzer & Co.'s cigar and tobacco store was decorated with two 
dozen flags. 

J. C. Rittenhouse's boot and shoe stf)re and the Misses Murphy's 
dress making room, adjoining, were decorated handsomely ^vith 
wreaths and festoons of evergreen and about sixty flags. The 
room above, occupied by Matthews & Huggins, disjihiyed two fine 
American flags. 

One of the most beautifid and appropriate private residence dec- 
orations was that of Mr. James S. Trimble, which was erected on 
the lawn in front of his mother's residence. It consisted of a large 
frame-work eighteen feet high and fourteen long, containing the 
full length portraits of Washington and the Goddess of Liberty 
in full colors, each eight feet by four. Just over Washington 
and the Goddess of Liberty floated in a bed of roses, Mr. J. R,. 
Marshall's beautiful model of ' ' Old Ironsides," six feet long and 
four feet high, full rigged, and as she appeared in the days of her 
glory. In the right hand corner was a representation of Commerce, 
and in the left was Agriculture. Over this Avas a beautiful canopy 
of red, white and blue, set with gold stars — the whole surrounded 
by an immense arch of cedar, and decorated with one hundred 
flags and fifty hanging-baskets and pots of beautiful flowers ar- 
ranged as only Jim can do it. It presented one of the most beau- 
tiful and appropriate displays of the day. At night the whole 
decoration was brilliantly illuminated, and the grand display of 
fireworks gave a beautiful effect to the truly magnificent display. 

Jenkins & Wessel, butchers, displayed about twenty flags. 

James Nugent, saddler and harness maker, displayed saddle- 
blankets of a blue field, white stars and red border, besides numer- 
ous small flags. 

Dr. Wever's office-front was well sujiplied with flags and ever- 
greens. 

Mrs. A. Sams's residence ])resented a fine a))pearanee, gaily 
decked with flags, fhnvers, cedar and banners. 



THE COUNTY OF HKiHT.AND. 



Ill 



AT THE :\I. K. CHUKCII 

A beautiful Hag was raised at seven o'clock A. M. The pastor, 
Rev. L. Clark, made a brief atldress and prayer, and the choir 
sang several patriotic songs. The exercises concluded with prayer 
and benediction by Rev. Mr. Bail, presiding elder. The exercise's 
were witnessed by quite a number of spectators from both town 
and country. 

ST. mart's episcopal church 

Was beautifully decorated inside with flowers, evergreens and 
flags, arranged in the most tasteful manner by the ladies of tlic 
congregation. Appropriate religious services were held in the 
church at six o'clock A.M., and an address was dehvered by the 
pastor, Rev. W. T. Bowen. In compliment to his nativity the 
" Union Jack" of England was draped over the pulpit, its folds min- 
gled with those of the American flag. 

fireworks at night. 

Tlie tireworks at night were witnessed by several thousand per- 
sons of the town and country. The display commenced with the 
ascension of five fine balloons, three of them thirty feet in diame- 
ter. As the latter ascended heavenward and floated ott' to the 
east the welkin rang with the shouts of admiration of the specta- 
tors, which showed they highly appreciated what they saw. 
Afterwards, for a period of two hours, rockets and Roman candles 
were sent up, illuminating the sky with parti-colors of red, wdiite 
and blue. At the same time Saxon and vertical wheels were set 
revolving, emitting sparks and cok)rs of varied hues, while several 
handsome pieces, such as the Union Fountain, sent variegated 
sparks of fire rising upward and ]iarting in imitation of and con- 
trast with the real fountain of living water. Tlie display was 
magnificent, and reflected much credit upon the connnittee who 
had the same in charge. 

MtscKi.LANKors i\i.\'i"n;i;s. 

Tlie Continenttd (hiards made a soldierly appearance with their 
uniforms, a /ctc-siHiife of the continental soldiers of the Revolutionary 
War. Thev were armed with muskets. Their oflftcers were Frank 



112 THE HISTORY OF 

Kibler, ('ai)!;!!!!; I\. S. Woodrow, First Lieutenant; Clark Lvtle, 
Second Fjieutenant; J. W. Mt-Caddon, Orderly ^Sel•JJ:eant ; C. H. 
Meek, Wni. Harnian, T. K. Callahan, Sergeants; Pike Gore, 
color hearer, and dressed as Brother Jonathan. Besides tlie officers 
the company numbered four iiuisicians and eighty privates. Our 
space is too limited to give the names. 

The liberty Guards were a military company composed of boys 
from twelve to sixteen years of age. Their uniforms were greeu 
and red; the hate cocked, with stars and figures of "76" of tin. 
They were armed with tin spears, and the officers carried swords. 
The com[)any was commanded by Major Ed. MuUenix, of our 
police force, and had been drilled two weeks, in which time they 
became perfect under their conmiander's efficient management. 
The other officers were as follows; John A. Collins, Charles Lil- 
ley, Lieutenants; Charles Allen, John Bell, Sergeants; Frank 
Sayler, color bearer. We are com})elled to omit the names of the 
pi-ivates for want of space. 

The Colored Continentals also made a fine display. The names 
of its officers were not handed to us, and we therefore omit them 
for the want of time to hunt them up and space to print anything 
more than the list of officers, if we knew them. 

The display in the procession of the Highland organ, with the 
performers dressed in fantastic material composed of national flags, 
was novel, and attracted a great deal of attention. 

The Hamer township delegation, headed with martial music, 
and its decoi-ated wagon filled with happy-faeed Sunday-school 
children, and the numerous vehicles in the procession, was the only 
township procession that came to the celebration. It was a very 
creditable attiiir, and was marshaled by Dr. ClKipman. 



Was a charming one, though wnrni. The clouds overcast tJie sky 
the greater part of the day, thus breaking the effect, to some 
extent, of the ()p])ressive heat of the sun's rays, and making the tein- 
{)erature e(juable and enjoj'^able. While the rain threatened at in- 
tervals during the day, there was not enough rain-fall to interfere 
with the ceremonies of the day or of ite enjoyment. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. I 1 .> 

TIIK CROWD AND OOOD HUMOIl. 

The crowd was iiuincnsely larger by far than ever before wit- 
lU'ssed ill our town. All day long it was in the liest of good liiniior 
with itself and all the rest of mankind. Twenty thouand people is 
a moderate estimate of the numbers present during the festivities of 
the day. The Fair Grounds, an area of twenty acres, was fairly 
crowded with people and vehicles. At no time during the day were 
there less than four to five thousand people on the streets, and it is 
safe to say that had all who came to town that day attempted to 
gain access to the Fair Grounds witli their vehicles, that they would 
have fiiiled by many thouands, the crowd was so large. 

INCIDENTS. 

There were many pleasant incidents during tlie day, and but 
one sad one to mar its pleasure, and that was the takiiig-off of 
Es(]uire Haigh, suddenly, by bleeding of the lungs. He came 
with his family to enjoy the Centennial celebration of our inde- 
pendence, and surrounded on all hands by great multitudes in the 
t()})most bent of enjoyment and i)leasure, was thus cpiickly stricken 
down by the icy hand of death. There were no accidents, although 
many were reported on tlie grounds. 

A SUCCESS. 

The celebration was a grand success in every particular, and in 
almost every detail. The Executive Committee and the Sub-Com- 
mittees all deserve the highest encomiums of praise for their great 
efficiency, and the successful manner in which they discharged the 
duties which devolved upon them. The Grand Marshal and his 
able assistants also deserve honorable mention for the manner in 
which they acquitted themselves. Altogether the day was a proud 
one, and will long be remembered. 

ORIGINAL ODE. 

The beautiful Centennial Ode, written by Miss Mary O'Doiiog- 

hue, i)ublished in the Gazette of last week, was not read, it not 

having been received in time by the Executive Ccmnnittee to change. 

the programme for its reading. The Committee, however, address- 

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114 THE HISTORY OF 

ed a note to the fair authoress makmg an explaiiatit)ii of the mat- 
ter and thanking her heartily for the admirahle poem, whicli it 
would have given them pleasure to incorporate into the program- 
me of exercises of the day. 



ORIGINAL ODE, BY MARY O DONOGHUK. 

Now lieai- the loud artillery saluting willing ears, 
Rejoicing with the people our glad one hundred years- 
Awaking all the echoes from the mountains to the sea 
And singing, as the thunder sings, " One Hundred Years — We're Free !" 

Behold in the horizon, from the portals of the east. 

Before the dawning sun she comes— the goddess of our fekst : 

As fair as sweet Aurora, as proud as noble Mars, 

And bearing in her trusty hand the gallant Stripes and Stars. 

Yes, Liberty approaches in the fullness of her prime ; 
The helmet-crown upon lier curling locks of gold doth shine; 
Majestic strength lier dower. Repose and winning gract' 
And loveliness are mirrored in the outlines of her face. 

Nor comes she unattended through the richly-tinted sky. 

Tlie olive- wreatlied maiden, Peace, her good right hand is nigh, 

And War, the glorious victor, by lance and rifle cleft, 

Stalks with a proud submission to the concjuering vestal's left. 

' A million cheers for Liberty !" with glad, exultant shout, 
F'roni all om- happy boi'ders now the ringing cry goes out, 
From north and south, from east and west, from forest, mount and sea, 

' A million cheers and welcoming songs, dear Liberty, for thee !" 

She speaks: " I come responsive to your loving, heart-rull i-all, 
And peace and benediction shower blessing-like on all. 
And O, ray favored people, on this bright auspicious day 
I have with praise and thankfulness a cheering word to say. 

' Long since, ere Time was hoary, in the far, receding years, , 
When earth, a new and radiant thing, foun<l place among the spheres; 
When men were few, nor perfect, their wills diverse and strong, 
I was assigned the leadership, a guardian host among. 

" Nor marvel that I keep my youth so vigorous and true 
When even Time grows weary with the work he has to do, 
For mine is hope and promise, and if crushed and spurned a.side, 
I rise, as spring arises, gladdened and revivifit^d. 

" My power is not limitless, nor deem my aims to be 
Upheavals and convulsions, sooth, a sorry mocUrr.\-. 
My name was never license, unrestrained, unbridled, free; 
But know me as the calm and just and (Jod-sent Liberty. 

" The sun rose over Eden, in the ages long ago. 
And earth's young bosom trembled in his genial, vivid glow. 
The primal pair were laappy, nor grief nor care h.id crossed 
The threshold of that paradise so soon and sadly lost. 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 115 

' For tlif fiilU^n flend belifld them with intensely jealous rage, 
And on their sinless happiness resolved a war to wage. 
Dissembling hate and malice, he wore a specious smile 
And spoke in honeyed syllables, as freedom guised the while. 

• Witli willing ears they listened as the future he unrolled— 
A picture vast before them, tinted rich with hues of gold. 
They ate the fruit he offered— fruit of the knowledge tree. 
By which, he said, came power and boundless liberty. 

'Thus from the sad beginning was I, e'en a maid, maligned. 
Who should have seen my purity were purposely stone blind ; 
Who should have known my justice, my championship of right, 
Turned from my clear-marked courses to the dismal paths of night. 

' And when the ea.st was peopled as the sands that line its shore 
Twin rivals rose against me in their hideousness and gore. 
De.spotism chained the millions, power ruled with iron hand, 
And for Liberty no shelter was in all that eastern land. 

' Then, like the sun so bountiful, I. journeyed to the west 
And sought the crags and fastness where tlie eagle builds it« nest. 
The wilds of Europe kept me full many a joyous day, 
Till fresh and blooming gardens under Heaven's eye they lay. 

" Again the mad usurpers. Power and Despotism, flew 
Across opposing mountains till my olive fields they knew. 
Again the fierce encounter— I was worsted ; but the sea 
Opened its embracing arms, and the free were with the free. 

" .\merica espied me, and her virgin soil was thrilled ; 
Her grand and wonderous forests with a magic music filled. 
Her hills uprose to greet me, her rivers sang in glee; 
I knew my own and sought her, and the bonnie land loved nu'. 

" And, lest pursuing despots still should seek my western isles, 
And envy seize them as they gazed upon my blossoming miles. 
I've taken in my service War, the justly true and brave, 
Than whose no stronger arm is, the weak to shield and save. 

"Nor think my noble satellite alike the old-time war, 
With cruel slaughter crusted in his scythe-encompassed car; 
This one is linked with liberty, that bound hiniself to might, 
And mine but girds for battle In the ranks and cau.se of right. 

" And Peace, my sweet hand-maiden, who has shaped the sword a plow, 
Comes with me to this festival, the olive on her brow, 
A blessing in her aspect, full plenty in her train, 
And I her sweet dominion will extend from main to main. 

" Aye, daughters of AnuM-ica, rejoice in festive song ; 
Ye Sons whom I have nurtured, chant your paeons loud and long ; 
Unfurl the proud young banner. ' One hundred years,' you say, 
But in my wiser knowletlge years are as bijt yesterday. 

" Fling out the gallant tri-color, the blue, the red and white ! 
.\n emblem fair to fill your eyes and bosoms with delight 
The newest flag upon the earth, the Stars and Stripes unfold, 
And let the story of its life in every clime be told. 

" Yes, celebrate your birth-day with becoming joy and pride; 
Your hundred years of history far older lands might guide ; 



116 THE HISTORY OF 



For under my tuitions and my promptings yon have sought, 
To ligliten human miseries and slaves to freedom liought. 

'The stranger and tht^ captive you liave welcomed to your shores, 
And to the poor and desolate thrown wide your ojjen doors. 
But take not ovt'r-credit, for to yours was done liefore 
The self-same loving kindness when they landed on my shore. 

' My wings are strong to shelter .you, hut h(>ed the words I say, 
And plant them In your memories deep this fair centennial day ; 
Be always just and fearless, for I cannf)t tolerate 
Unhallowed prejudices and malignant, groveling hate. 

' To the stranger be as brothers, be ye helpers to the weak. 
And train your tongues in truthtulness and manliness to sjieak; 
Resist the false oppressor, all tyrannies withstand, 
Nor let dishonor's shadow thwart this highly favored land. 

' For I would have ye models— Nol)le, upright, brave and pure ; 
No Inst of gold or sordidness can liiberty endure. 
In your young strength be merciful, in council firm and wise. 
And over petty rivalries as victors proud arise. 

'Dissensions do not foster, divisions give no roof; 
From narrow sectionalities most wisely stand aloof. 
In public trusts be faithful, in private life unstained. 
And then in strictest justice may ye freedom's hosts be named. 

' Let the loud cannon utter the hoarse greeting of its song ; 
Let all the bells in unison their melodies prolong; 
Let clouds of star-lit banners illume the wooing air, 
And all my happy people in this grand ovation share. 

' And when in future ages future million shall unite 
To celebrate this natal-day of Liberty and Right ; 
When the records of our progress both the poles will rush to show. 
And science strive to lift the veil from truths the present may not know 

When lands and other islands still have sought our sheltering wing. 

And of the second century of freedom's i-eign they sing, 

Then I, as judge and arbiter, presiding then and there. 

Will call up thrilling memories of this First Centennial Year." 



Filial lleetiiio' of the Foiirtli of -Inlv Executive foiiiiiiittee. 



General Committee met, pursuant to adjournment. 

The rej)orts of (lifFerent sitb-connuittees 1)eino; heard, the accounts 
audited and claims allowed, H. S. Do^gett moved that all the stream- 
ers, Hags and other property belonging to the Committee on Decora- 
tions be placed in the hands of C. S. Bell, for i)ublic use, and that the 
unsettled claims and vouchers be placed in the hands of a Committee 
consisting of C. S. Bell, Dr. Noble, C. H. Collins and Joint Mathews, 
for final adjustment, which was carried unanimously. 



THE CorNTV OF HIGHLAND. 117 

Dr. Noble asked leave to make a few remarks preparatory to mak- 
ing a motion. He said that the work of the Executive Committee 
had been comparatively easy, owing to the efficient and satisfactory 
manner in which the various sub-committees had performed their 
respective duties. Indeed, everything had been done so promptly 
and in such good order, that he (Dr. N.) felt like thanking everybody. 
He did not wish to make any invidious distinctions where all did so 
well, but duties were performed by some persons which, from their 
very nature and character, could only be appreciated by the few who 
had been cognizant of the facts, whilst others "showed for them- 
selves." For instance, the superb martial appearance of the different 
military compaies, their splendid drill, their steady, regular steps, and 
their gentlemanly, soldier-like bearing, gave them more the appear- 
ance of veterans in the art of war than of raw recruits of only a few 
days' service, and afforded ocular proof to the people who witnessed 
their evolutions that they had been drilled and officered by compe- 
tent men. s-And so with other features of the day. As another \h 
lustration, every person who saw or heard the beautiful chime of 
bells which were so handsomely rigged up and placed on wheels, and 
so arranged that they could be made to perform any piece of music, 
the machine having keys like a piano to operate on each bell— as a 
matter of course every one would say, " I know who got that up— that 
came from the foundry of C. S. Bell. " 

Again, every one who heard by the " Dawn's Early Light," on the 
morning of the -Ith, the reverbeations among the hills of old High- 
land, well knew that if our flag was not still there, "Uncle Jake" teas 
with his cannon— and so on, ad mfitittum. 

But ivho could tell who suspended the beautiful streamers with 
their their appropriate mottoes, across the principal streets of our vil- 
lage, welcoming all to" share the hospitalities of the festive occasion ? 
Or who had the splendid arch over the main entrance to the grounds 
erected, with its appropriate motto? Or who had tlie beautiful and 
commodious platform constructed, with its finely turned arches and 
ornaments, which were the admiration of every beholder. All these 
attractions and indispensable adjuncts to a successful celebration of 
our Centennial, were accomplished by hands invisible to the vast 
throng who admired the workmanship, and eulogized the refined 
taste and exquiste skill of some Chairman of a Committee on Decor- 
ations to them unknown. 

Therefore, I move that the thanks of this meeting be and are here- 
by tendered to Frank \V. Armstrong, Chairman of the Committee on 
Decorations, and liis/<'/" irorthn (/.s.s/s/rr//fe, not only for their patriotism 
which ])rompted them to do the work, but also for the untiring energy 
and zeal and fine taste they displayed in rendering the decorations one 
of the great attractions of the day, and thus conlributing to the enjoy- 
ment of all present. 



118 THE HrSTORY OF 

The motion was unanimously adopted. 

Mr. Armstrong expressed his thanks for the compliment, ajid said 
the Committee gave him too much credit, as, to the valuable aid ol' his 
English friend, Mr. James Wadman, who kindly volunteei-ed his ser- 
vices and labored faithfully from morning until night, l^elongs the prin- 
cipal credit, for whatever of beauty of design or success in the man. 
agement was achieved, was due chiefly to hin valuable suggestions. 

On motion of R. T. Hough, it was unanimously agreed that the thanks 
of this Committee be and are hereby tendered to ]\Ir. James AVad- 
man for his valuable and efficient services, which so greatly conti-il)- 
uted to the success of the day. 

On motion of Dr. Noble, the Secretary was requested to ask Hon. H. 
L. Dickey for a copy of his eloquent oration for ])ublicati<in in the pa- 
l)ers of the county. Carried. 

On motion the Committee then adjourned sine di£. 

C. S. BELL, Chairman. 

C. H. Collins, Secretari/. 



[The foregoing graphic and thoroughly truthful discription of 
the proceedings of the people of Highland (vounty, on the Fourth 
of July, A. D., 1876, was written by Mr. J. C. Springer, Editor 
of the Hillsboro Gazette, and was published in that newspaper 
of the succeeding week. 

In a short time thereafter, on the of July, A. D., 1876, JMr. 

Springer, in the prime of manhood, departed this life, universally 
respected and beloved by the whole community. Of him it can 
be justly recorded that he was an editor of very versatile and 
rare talent — a ready writer possessed of much knowledge in every 
relation of life. As a man, he was faithful and honest, and in 
every jX)sition a genial gentleman without prejudice, envy or malice 
toward any human being. Bv the Author.] 



APPENDIX. 



I Written for the Oliio Centennial Memorial Seliool Volume by H. S. Doggett. 

SKETCH OF THE RISE AND PROORESS 

OK THK 

COMMON SCHOOLS of HILLSBORO, 

HIGHLAND COUNTY, OHIO. 



The first settlers of Hillsboro w ere men -of intelligence, and at 
an early day evinced a great interest in schools. Many of these 
pioneers were men of liberal education for that day, and were 
always ready and anxious to provide schools for their children. 
Very soon after the settlement of the town, pay or subscription 
schools were taught at intervals by James Daniel and others. The 
first of these schools, deserving of particular notice, was taught by 
Robert Elliott, who came here from Kentucky, at the instance of 
Allen Trimble, who had known him as a teacher in that state. 

Elliott opened his school in 1814, in a building on Walnut 
street, nearly opposite the Methodist Church. At the start he 
had between thirty and forty pupils, and the number was some- 
what increased afterward. He was considered a good teacher, 
and his school was continued for the following three years. It was 
attended by the children of the town, and by some from the adjoin- 
ing country. Several of the pupils of this school are yet living, 
amongst whom are John A. Trimble, John M. Bairere, Colonel 
Trimble and Washington Doggett. 

While this school was going on, the citizens of the town agitated 
the subject of the purchase of a lot and the erection of a school- 
house. A pul)lic meeting was held, at which it was determined 
to buy a lot and build a house, all to be paid for by subscription, 
and to be the property of the town for school purposes. Three 
managers were elected : Joseph Woodrow, J. D. Scott and George 



120 THE HISTORY OP 

Shinn. They purchased of Jesse Wilhams, the lot on East Maui 
street, on which John D. Spargui- now resides, for fifty dolhirs. 
The deed bears date May 15, 1815. Very soon afterward a log 
school house, twenty-five by thirty-five feet, was erected upon this 
lot. The house was of hewn logs, and, in the language of the ar- 
ticles of agreement with the contractor, was "to be chunked and 
daubed with good lime and clay mortar on the outside, and to be 
lined with plank on the walls in the inside, and ceiled above head." 
On the completion of the house it was furnished with seats and 
desks of simple construction, but in consonance with the means of 
the peo})le and in accordance with the furniture of their homes. 
Elliott first occu})ied this house, removing his school from the 
house on Walnut street. He remained in it till 1818. 

The next movement in the direction of better schools occurred 
in 1818. At that time the Madras or Lancastrian school system 
was attracting considerable attention in this country and Europe. 
Captain John McMullin came to Hillsboro from Virginia, and 
proposed to teach a school upon this plan. Several prominent cit- 
izens became interested in getting up the school, and a meeting 
was held and articles of agreement and subscription were drawn 
up and signed by nearly all the citizens of the town. For the 
welfixre and good government of the school, Allen Trimble, Wil- 
liam Keys, Samuel Bell, John M. Nelson, Joshua Woodrow, sr., 
John Boyd and William Wright were chosen trustees of the 
" Hillsboro Lancastrian School." These trustees were empowered 
to contract with McMullin to teach the school, and were to pay 
him a salary not exceeding six hundred dollars for the first year. 
They were also authorized to provide fuel and other necessaries. 
All ex})enses were to be paid by assessment on the subscribers in 
proportion to the number of scholars each sent to the school. The 
school was to be in session forty-eight weeks each year. To this 
school Allen Trimble subscribed f)ur pupils, John Boyd four, 
William Keys three, John Jones three, Francis Shinn three, John 
Smith, Pleasant Arthur, Newton Doggett, and some forty others 
one or two each. The school was opened in the log house on Main 
street, in September, 1818, and all the appliances of the Lancas- 
trian system were ])rovided. Amongst these latter was the sand 
desk, whicli supplied the |)lacc of the modern blackl)oard. Be- 
tween sixfy and seventy pupils wcvo enrolled at the start, and the 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAXD. 121 

number was afterward increased during- the continuance of the 
school to ninety. 

In 1821 an addition, twenty feet in length, was added to the 
school house. This school seems to have prospered for four years, 
and whatever the defects of the system may have been, it had the 
merit of turning out good readers, writers and spellers. Many of 
the at present old residents were pupils in this school, amongst 
whom are Joshua Woodrcjw, jr., Mrs. G. W. Tucker, William H. 
Woodrow, Mrs. Dr. Kirby, Col. Trimble, Mrs. J. M. Trimble, 
]\[r. and Mrs. J. P. Ellis and Washington Doggett. Fourteen 
others are still living at other })laces. In these two early schools 
no provision was made for indigent pupils, excepting what assist- 
ance was given them by their abler neighboi's, and that assistance 
was rarely withheld from the deserving. 

The Lancastrian school under Capt. McMullin closed in 1823. 
An effort was made by John S. McKelvy to c<jntinue it, but he 
carried it on only for a short time, when the system was abandoned. 
No effort was made in these schools to teach anything beyond the 
common branches, excepting an occasional class in book-keeping. 

The next school of any note was taught by Eben Hall and his 
wife, in the year 1826. The Halls were from Massachusetts, and 
both were well educated. Hall was a man of classical acquire- 
ments. He taught the advanced branches, and his wife the prim- 
ary ones. Classes were taught by Hall in Algebra, Latin, Greek 
and Hebrew. The Hon. Nelson Barrere was a pupil of this school, 
and went thence to Augusta College. 

Owing to domestic and other troubles. Hall did not teach many 
niontlis. He was succeeded by Benjamin Brock, wiio taught for 
a year or two. Judge Gregg also taught a school about the same 
time. 

In 1827 Robert Way, a Quaker i)reacher, who had been teach- 
ing in Fairfield township, came to Hillsboro, and tauglit a school. 
He was a teacher of very considerable reputation, and taught for 
many years in Clinton county, where he died a few years ago. 

In the year 1827 a moveni'Mit was made in the direction of high- 
er education in Hillsboro, whicli, on account of the im])etus it gave 
the cause of education and the results flowing from it, (h^serves ex- 
tended notice. This movement resulted in the founding of the 
Hillsboro Academy. The pressing want of some more tliorough 



122 thp: history of 

and extensive system of education was felt and appreciated by the 
leading men of the town. This feeling led to a subscription being- 
started for the purpose of ]iroviding a Male High School or Acad- 
emy. After a good deal (jf hard work, over five hundred dollai's 
were raised, in shares of stock of five dollars. The ])rincipal stock- 
holders were Allen Trimble, William Keys, Andrew Barry, Josh- 
ua Woodrow, jr., Isaac Telfair, John M. Nelson, Richard C-oUins, 
Jacob Kirby and Samuel E. Hibben. 

The stockholders were incorporated by an act of the legislature, 
and organized by electing Allen Trimble ])resident, Richard Col- 
lins secretary, and Samuel E. Hibben treasurer. 

In order to 'commence a school at once it was determined to em- 
ploy a principal at once, and Rev. Josei)h McDowell Mathews, 
then of Kentucky, was selected. He removed to Hillsboro and 
opened the academy in a temporary building, in October, 1827. 
In 1829 a two-story frame house on East Main street, on the lot 
on which John A Trimble now resides, was purchased. Mr. Mat- 
hews remained as principal for several years. After him came 
Rev. Samuel D. Blythe, Rev. John Eastman, James A. Nelson 
and, last, Prof. Isaac Sams. The Academy reached its greatest 
efficiency, and had its highest reputation, while in charge of Mr. 
Sams. It was the first High or Classical School of any impoi't- 
ance in this part of the state, and was attended l)y about fifty 
young men of this and adjoining counties. 

Early in the history of the academy it received, through the 
efforts of Governor Allen Trimble, a donation of the state's inter- 
est in two tracts of land forfeited for taxes. After paying $1,600 
to heirs having claims on the land, enough was realized from the 
sale of a portion of the land witli which to buy a lot and erect a 
building. Accordingly, a tract of thirteen acres in the north 
part of town was i)urchased, and on it a commodious two-story 
l)rick edifice was erected, known as " The Hillsboro Academy." 
For the construction of this building the corpoiution and the peo- 
ple were greatly indebted to the indefatigable efforts of Col. Wil- 
hani O. ("ollins. The house was ready for occupancy in 1845, and 
in September of that year Mr. Sams commenced his school, as- 
sisted at different times by Fred. Fuller and Messrs. McKibben 
and C. Matthews. The reputation of the s(.'hool for thorough in- 
struction in the higher branches grew rapidly as a result of the 



THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND, 123 

ability and industry of Mr. Sams. Several younj^ )nen were here 
|)re])ai"ed for collejie and fur the business of life. Some of these 
afterward became distinguished for their abilities and sound schol- 
arship. Wherever they are they look back with pride to tlic 
career of the old academy. 

Professor Sams retired from the academy in 18")! , and the school 
was discontinued. The use of the building was donated to the 
Union schools. Mr. Sams is still living in Hillsboro, at the ad- 
vanced age of eighty-seven, enjoying as good health and as good 
use of his faculties as most men do at sixty years of age. His 
services to the cause of education in this town and county are held 
in grateful remembrance and appi-eciation by our people. In ad- 
dition to his services in the academy and the jniblic schools, his 
work as school exanuner was of great value. He was appointed 
examiner in IS.SS. Previous to that time the examinations for 
certificates had been conducted with veiy little system. After 
Mr. Sams undertook the work, the board adopted a fixed method 
of strict examinations, and by abiding by this for thirty years the 
teachers of the county became worthy of the noble work they had 
to do. He alsf) took an active part in the County and State 
Teachers' Associations, and was, in 18.51, president of the State 
Teachers' Association. 

By his long and varied services he gained that respect and es- 
teem of his fellow-citizens he so well deserves. 

In this connection it is fitting to mention the services of (lov. 
Allen Trimble, who, from his coming to the county, was to the 
day of his death, the fiiend of popular education. He took an 
active part in inaugurating the present common school system. 
Always foremost in the early educational enterpi'ises at home,* he 
accomplished much for the cause in Ohio when governor of tlie 
state. He appointed, in 1822, the commissioners to report a sys- 
tem of education adapted for connnon schools. Nathan Guilford, 
of this commission, secured the passage of the act in 182;'), the 
fii-st step toward the present school system. Cxov. Trimble, in his 
inaugural in 182(), and in his messages from that time to 1880, 
urged upon the legislature the interests and demands of the com- 
mon schools, and recommended increased taxation for thcii- main- 
tenance. His influence, more than anything else, ettected the pas- 
sage of the acts of 1831 and 1832. His services, when the system 



124 THE HISTORY OF 

was in its infancy, cannot be over estimated, and should always 
be remembered with gratitude by the people of Ohio. To no one 
person are they more indebted for the proud rank their schools 
have taken than to Allen Trimble. 

During the years of the inception, growth and prosperity of 
the academy, the public schools were in operation as primary 
schools, and were gradually growing in usefulness. Instruction 
in them was confined to the primary branches. Under the laws 
of 1825 and 1831^ a portion of the expense was paid from funds 
raised by taxation, and part by the patrons of the schools. Soon 
after 1832, schools sustained entirely by public money were inau- 
gurated. These schools were taught for the next few years by 
George McMillen, Mathew Simpson, and Messsrs. Wilcox, Davis 
and others. 

In 1827, a Graramer school was taught by Joseph McMathews, 
afterward the principal of the academy, the founder of Oakland 
Female Seminary, and at present the president of the Hillsboro 
Female College. For many years Mr. Mathews, assisted part of 
the time by Miss E. L. Grandgirard, was an earnest and faithful 
teacher in the special department of female education. Their 
work, although not directly connected with the common school 
system, was efficient and important. 

In the year 1835, the old log school house built hi 1815, gave 
place to a one-story brick school house, erected on the same site. 
The first school in this house was taught by Mathew Simpson, who 
was afterward succeeded in turn by George McMillen, S. I). Beall 
and D. Ruckman. At this time the interests of the public schools 
yfere in a manner overshadowed by those of the academy and sem- 
inary. Still the rapidly increasing number of children recpiiring 
primary instruction demanded nioi'c room for the schools, and in 
184(5 a two-stoi-y building, known as the Walnut Street House, 
was built. 

. The .schools r(>-opened in 1847, with David Herron and Aman- 
da Wilson as teachers in the Walnut Street House, and William 
Herron and Mary Muntz in the old Main Street House. About 
150 pupils were enrolled, and the schools gave good satisfacticm 
for the next year or two. 

In the year 1850, Professoi- Sams called the attention of the 
people to the benefits likely to accrue to the yontii by an organi- 



THE COUNTY OF HKilll.AM). 12") 

zatioii iiiuler the law oC l'S4!>, known as tlic Union Scliool Law. 
This was ably advocated by James Brown, of the iVews-, and Mr. 
Enirie, of the Gazette, and was resolved nyunx by a popular vote, 
and in the spring of 1851 a Union School Board of Education, 
con.sisting of D. J. Fallis, John M. Johnston, J. R. Emrie, R. 
H. Ayres, Benjamin Barrere and Washington Doggett, was 
elected. The organization was perfected during the year, and in 
the autumn the Union schools oj)ened, with Henry M. Shockley 
as superintendent. Tlie schools coin|)rised three grades, primary, 
secondary and grammer, and in the latter a few High school 
branches were to be taught by the sujierintendent, if there were 
any pupils qualified to pursue them. The enrollment the first 
year was about 280, and the second 275. 

In 1853 the use of the academy building was given to the 
Union schools by that corporsition, and in May, 1853, the gram- 
mar depai'tment was moved to that house, under the charge of 
Mr. Shockley and Eli Zink. At the close of the school year in 
1853 Mr. Shockley resigned, and Rev. E. McKinney was aj)- 
pointed to the position of superintendent. It was determined at 
this time to add a High school department, to be taught by the 
superintendent, assisted by Prof. Saras, whose services for half of 
each day were secured. The schools were in charge of Mr. Mc- 
Kinney until 1856, when he was succeeded by Mr. Sams, who re- 
mained in charge until 1858. During these last few years the 
system found favor, and it was believed by those interested that it 
would in time supplant all other schools. 

The schools opened in 1858 with Lewis McKibben as superin- 
tendent. In December of this year the old academy building, in 
which three grades were taught, was destroyed by fire. For the 
next eight years the schools were without good accommodations, 
changes of teachers were frequent, and they lost much of the 
ground they had gained in the few years before. 

In 1862 Mr. McKibben was succeeded as superintendent by 
John Edwards, and in 1864 he was succeeded by L. McKibben. 
For various reasons no su|)erintendent or "A" Grammar teacher 
were employed for 1865, and the school, including the lower 
Grammar and the grades below, was continued in charge of B. C. 
Colburn, of the B Grammar Grade. 

The l)oard and the peo})le had been convinced of the absolute 



126 THE HISTORY OF 

need ofa^^ood building, wliicii would accoininodato all the school 
under one roof. They had, in ISHo, purchased a fine lot on 
West Walnut street for $2HoO. The jmrchase was eonfirnied by 
the vote of the people, and preparations were eoninieneed for 
erecting a commodious Unioji School House. Some delays occur- 
reil in commencing it, but in 1865 plans and specifications were 
drawn up for the i)resent building. These articles and plans dif- 
fered materially from those of the log house of 1815, which Avas 
by the terms of the articles of agreement, to be "chunked and 
daubed." 

The contracts for building the new house were let in 1866, and 
the construction was pushed forward during that year and the 
next two. Some opposition was made to the project at the time, 
but now the entire intelligent portion of the community approve 
the action. The board, under whose auspices the house was built, 
consisted of C. S. Bell, James S. Murphy, Washington Doggett, 
N. Rockhold, J. C. Gregg and J. H. Mullenix. 

The old school houses and lots were m\d at public sale. The 
Main street lot for $2,000. This, as we have seen, w^as bought in 
LSI 5 for $50.00, a big price at the time. 

At the beginning of the school year in 1866 the board resolved 
to restore the two grades that had been dropped, and to employ a 
superintendent and A Grammar grade teacher. Accordingly, H. 
S. Doggett was employed as superintendent, and E. G. Smith for 
the A Grammar grade. Although the schools had poor accommo- 
dations, they gradually increased in enrollment and favor with the 
people until the year 1868, when the new three-story building 
was completed and ready for occupancy. 

The schools were opened on the 6th of Septend)er in the new 
house, with the following corps of teachers : 

H. S. Doggett, superintendent; L. McKibben, High School 
teacher; E. G. Smith, A (xrammar; Mary Doggett, B Grammar; 
Maggie Richards and ]\Iary Ellis, Intermediate ; Serena Hender- 
son, Matilda INIcFadden and Sarah .1. Lambert, Primary. 

A revised course of study and a code of regulations were re- 
ported by the superintendent and adopted by the board. At the 
start 410 jnipils were enrolled. These were examined and classi- 
fied in their proper grades. Soon after the opening another In- 
termediate teacher was required, and Miss Ellen Eckly was eni- 



THE COUNTY OF H Hi HI, AND. 127 

ployod. It was also determined to employ h teacher tor the (xer- 
inan language, and Gus^tav (yhateaubriand was employed. In 
1869 Miss Cai'oline Clay was chosen to this position, which she 
has filled creditably ever since. A regular High school course of 
study was adopted at this time, which, in 1872, was revised and 
extended, and arranged for three years' study. From that time 
forward the board determined to give diplomas to those pupils who 
satisfactorily completed the course. Pupils completing this course 
are prepared to enter college, or qualified for the active business 
of life. We give the names of the graduates. 

Class of 1878. 

W. A. Brouse, Edward Holmes, W. ('. Nelson, Wyatt F'arrar, 
N. Rockhold, jr., Matilda Roads, Verda Eckly, Amelia Clay. 

Class of 1874. 

Nannie Hanley, William R. Patterson, Thomas H. Langley, 
Josei)h McD. Mathews, jr. 

Class of 1875. 

John Higgins, Julius Pangburn, Finima Coiianl, Bertha Reek- 
ley, Callie Shepherd, Mary F. Fallon. 

Two of the graduates and three other pupils, wlio finished their 
course in the schools befi)re diplomas were given, are now' teachers 
in the .schools. Several others are teaching in other places, or en- 
gaged in business. Eveiy year young men and ladies from the 
country attend the sch(jols and qualify themselves for teachers. 
Many of these are doing good work in the country schools. 

The number of pupils enrolled at the beginning of the present 
term in the white schools were o23, and in the colored 7o. This 
hitter department is taught in a connnodious and convenient brick 
school house of two rooms, erected by the Union School and 
t(jwnship boards. Two teachers are employed for the colored 
school, and good results have already accrued from their labors. 

The I In ioji .schools are now held in great favor and ai)j)reciation 
by the youth and citizens of the town. A zeal for and an hiterest 
in learning pervades the pu])ils of the school in all the grades, 
which, as much as anything else, insures their progress and sue- 



128 THE HISTORY OF 

cess. Tlie discipline is good, tin- iuiiiiIkt of the unruly and insub- 
ordinate l)ein,i!: very small. jNIonthly examinations in writing are 
held, and public examinations twice in the year. The teachers- 
have of late yeavs been generally faithful, efficient and well (juali- 
fied for their arduous duties. All of these hold certificates of a 
high grade from the county examiners and the sujXM-intendent, 
one for life from the state lioard of examiners. 

Tlie good results of the past few years are, in a great measure, 
to be attributed to the liberal and enlightened policy of the board 
of education in retaining the services of successful and efficient 
teachers as long as they desire to remain. This has given the 
schools a character for permanency, and has prevented those dis- 
organizing breaks in the work which are the results of frequent 
changes in teachers or methods. 

The superintendent and several of the teachers have; been in 
the continuous service of the board for eight or nine years past. 
Changes of teachers have been not at all frequent. 

In September, 1875, soon after the schools had re-opened for 
the ])resent year, Mr. McKibben resigned his position in the High 
school, and retired from the profession on account of ill health. 
He had filled the place since the year 1868. He was succeeded 
by E. G. Smith, who is doing his work in this grade thoroughly 
and successfully. The superintendent gives three-fifths of his 
time to teaching in the High school, and the remainder to super- 
vision. Sixty -five pupils are enrolled in the High school, the 
largest number ever in attendance in this grade during a summer 
term. They are studying Latin, Greek, German, the Sciences 
and Higher Mathematics. The graduating class this year will 
equal or surpass in numbers any former one. 

The Union schools are now managed l)y the following authorities : 

BOARD OF EDirCATION. 

C. S. Bell, William H. Glenn, Wesley Copes, John Rcckly, 
Josiah Stevenson, J. M. Heistand. 

CORPS OF TEACHERS 1875-70. 

H. S. Doggett, superintendent; K. G. Smith, High school 
teacher ; W. A . Brouse, A Grammer teacher ; Mary Doggett, 
B Grammar ; Lizzie Ambrose, Matilda Roads, Sarah E. Williams, 



THK COUNTY OF HKiHT^ANI). 129 

Intermediate; Maiy C'dimrd, Nannie Dttujit'tt, Surali .J. Lam- 
bert, H. K. Fcnncr,- Primary; (". Clay, (icrman. 

COl.OKKl) SCHOOL. 

William H. (iarnett, Hattie A, (iordon. 

Thi.< sketch can not be bettei' concluded than Avith the following 
}>ara_iiraphs from memoranda furnished the writer by Prof. Isaac 
.Sams : 

" To one who has closely watched the progress of education 
and its results in the comity of Highland and village of Hillsboro 
for over forty years, the vast amelioration in the attainments, the 
demeanor and moral status of the youth, seems almcst miraculous. 

"And in general it may be affirmed of the educational condition 
of Highland county and of Hillsboro, the county town, that no 
agricultural county of an equal population can be found to excel 
it in either method or effect." 



ERRATA. 

On page 13, line 18, in the table, read H. F. ('(ilh-gi-; and in line 
19, read milshoro Acadcmii. 

On page 74, line 10, for "have" read lias. 

On page 75, line o, before the word "abandoned," add have. 

On same page, line 26, before the word " speeches," read eloquent 
for "elegant." 



Index to Centennial History. 



A 

Auditors. C(.iiiity 40, 41 

Academy, Hillsboro .'i. (;, 7, s, It, (M) 

Agriculture H4, tJo 

Appendix lUt to IJl) 

B 

Banks 14 

Baiikrui>tey. Kejiister of 17 

Bar of the County 49, .V) 

Banks and Bankers .>4 

Bloods of Population 72 

Bauds. Hills])oro Cornet 79 

C 

County, Oru:ani/,ation ai :',, 4, 5 

Churches 12 

Congress, Members of Ki, 17 

Commissioner, U.S. of 17 

Commissioners, County 41, 42, 4:5, 44 

Colleges and Schools oO, ri7, 58, o9, (50 

College, Hillsboro Female fiO, 01, 02 

Colleges of the State 02, 0.". 

Card, ^lurphy 74 

Committee. Fourth of July, 1S70 110 to lis 

D 

Debts, County 14 

T)escri])tion of Population 72, 7:1 

F 

Fruits !) 

G 

(drains 'J 

(ireentield 7:1, 74 

H 

Horses, Hogs, etc !> 

Hotels 12 

Hillsboro 75, 7S, 79 

J 

Judicial Deimrtment of Ohio :)4 

Judges, Common Pleas :!4, 40, 4S 

Judges of Probate 40 

Justices of the Peace 45, 40 



INDEX. 131 

Laiuls of the County •"■>. ♦>. H 

l-Hiids of tlie T()\vnshii)s S 

M 

Millts 12 

Manufactories 12 

Markets, Hillsboro 14, 15 

Marshals, Deputy U. S 17 

Ministers of the Gospel ">0, 51, 52 

Murphy Temperance Movement 74 

:\Ii]itary. Fourth of July, lS7t> 111. 112 

N 

Newspapers ')•'>. G(>. ti7 

O 

Orcliarils 8, 9 

Orchards, Production of 9 

Officers of Villages 40, 47 

Ode, Original Fourth of July, 1S76 114 to 116 

P 

Products 9, 10 

Property, Value of Real and Personal 10 

Population 11, 12 

Population of the Towns and Townships of the County from 

1810 to 1870 11, 12 

Postmasters, Hillsboro 17 

Physicians 52, 5:^ 54 

Proceedings, Fourth of July, 1870 81 

Procession, Fourth of July, 1870 82 

Marshals 83 

Officers 85 

" Speeches 85 to 97 

" Decorations V>9 to HI 

R 

Railroads 14, 63 

Revenue, Collectors of 17 

Recorders, County 44, 45 

Religions of Population 72. 73 

Regiment, 13th, Ohio National Ouard 30, 31, 32 

S 

Stock, Live, Statement of, 1874 to lvS70 9 

Schools and Sehool Houses 13 

Service, Civil, of U. S 10, 17 

Service, Senators, U. S 16 

Service, Military, U. S 18 to 29 

iService, State of Ohio 32, 34 



1;52 INDEX. 

Pagf. 

Service, Goveriiors and ntlier Uliicers o2 

Senators •>-, •>•> 

Surveyors, County 45 

Schools, Common 'io 

Streams of Water (i9, 70 

Springs of County 70, 71 

Settlement of County 71 

Soil (if County 71 

T 

Townships, Organization of (i, 7, 8 

" Names and Dates <>, 7, <S 

" Quantity of Land (i, 7, 8 

Turnpikes 14 

Treasurers, County 44 

Towns and Villages.... 55, 56 

Topography of the County..... (IS, 60, 70, 71, 72 

V 

Votes, Decennial Xo. of fruni ISKl to 1S75 i:> 

W 

War of 1812 18 

War with 3Iexico 18, 10 

War of the Rebellion 20, 21, 22, 2S, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 20 

Infantry, 12th 20 

" ' 24th 20, 21 

'; 27th ; 21 

48th 21 

50th 22 

5i»th 22 

()Oth 22, 23 

65th 23 

" " " " 73rd 24 

" " " " 81st '. 24 

" " " 88th 24 

" " " " 80th 24, 25 

" " " " ICSth 25 

175th 25, 26 

Cavalry, 1st 26 

" " 2d 26 

4th 27 

" " " " nth 27 

12th 27 

" " " Artillery, 1st 27 

2nd 28 

Volunteer 29,30 

Woman's Temjierance Crusade. — Description aixl Names of 

Crusaders 75, 76, 77, 78 



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